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                                                     Seminar

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title

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Modeling and Optimizing the Public Health Infrastructure for Emergency Response

　

　

　

Speaker

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Prof. Eva Lee

　

　

School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

　

　

Georgia Institute of Technology

　

　

　

Date

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November 24th, 2008 (Monday)

　

　

　

Time

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4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

　

　

　

Venue

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Room 513

　

　

William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

　

　

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)

　

　

CUHK

　

　

　

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Abstract:
　

City readiness and emergency response for biological, radiological, and infectious disease outbreaks involves multi-level strategic and operational planning of the public health infrastructure. We provide an overview infrastructure network and highlight some challenges in emergency preparedness and response. We then describe our experience with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with state and county public health and emergency response administrators on large-scale dispensing of prophylactic medication. Strategic stockpile, medical supply distribution, locations of dispensing facilities, optimal facility staffing and resource allocation, routing of the population, and various logistics, transportation, and dispensing modalities will be discussed and analyzed.


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Biography:
　

Eva Lee is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care. She is also co-directing the NSF-Center for Health Organization Transformation. She earned her doctorate from Rice University in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and has won several postdoctoral fellowships and other awards, and holds seven patents for medical systems and devices. Together, Professor Lee and Dr. Marco Zaider from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center won the 2007 Edelman Prize for their work on using operations research to advance cancer therapeutics.


************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

　

　

　

Host

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Prof. Janny Leung

Tel

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(852) 2609-8238

Email

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janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk

　

　

　

Enquiries

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Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou

　

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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

　

　

CUHK

Website

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http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seg5810

Email

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seg5810@se.cuhk.edu.hk

　

　

　

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