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The conference provided a unique opportunity for sharing practices, identifying potential new strategies, policies, and investments, and building cross-sector partnerships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants applauded the diversity of backgrounds, such as the representation of public and private sector organizations with academia and government, the unique opportunity for exchange among both the global health and humanitarian response communities, as well as the opportunities for in-depth discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Sarley, Senior Program Officer in Global Health at the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation commented: \u201cIn addition to the great quality of the presentations themselves, it is the richness of dialogue taking place in the side sessions that is most valuable\u2026 there are many more conversations to be continued from what was started here.\u201d Dr. Iain Barton, Managing Director of Imperial Health Sciences, commented that this conference was the first time he had heard representatives from different sectors and organizations really \u201clisten to each other\u201d in order to learn from common challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPanel and workshop topics included infrastructure and capacity building in developing countries for improved long-term resilience as well as preparing for and responding to complex humanitarian emergencies. Speakers highlighted successful practices and challenges, such as a last-mile healthcare delivery platform to deliver life-saving medicines to rural areas of Africa, the importance of utilizing the private sector supply chain for \u201cwhat it does best,\u201d focusing public health resources on strategic integration and policy leadership, transparency and coordination among international agencies and first responders during a complex emergency, and public health systems strategies for infectious disease eradication, and empowering local leaders and first responders to ensure lasting change and a cultural shift toward improving healthcare capacity. Likewise keynote speaker and IFRC Head of the Africa region, Alasan Senghore, called for \u201ccultural diplomacy,\u201d stating that \u201cif the community is empowered, we will be much better off, and more lives can be saved.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the panel and workshop sessions, the conference offered a variety of site visits including the Unjani Container \u201cClinics-in-a-Box\u201d project and the Northstar Alliance mobile clinic, the IMPERIAL Health Sciences warehousing and logistics center and UTi Pharmaceutical distribution center, and a township \u201crehabilitation\u201d and sustainability project. Participants expressed overwhelming support for the site visits and the opportunity to learn first-hand about new models and practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe information presented and ideas generated at the conference led to connections and future collaborations within and across organizations and have the potential to improve efficiency and effectiveness for many players in the health and humanitarian sectors. We look forward to bringing together another diverse group of participants in 2016!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conference was hosted by the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), co-organized by the Georgia Tech Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems (H\u0026amp;HS), INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group, MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, and Northeastern University, with generous sponsorship from the UPS Foundation, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Imperial Health Sciences and IMRES Netherlands, Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, Georgia Tech, and Coca-Cola.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor further information about participants and speakers, panel and workshop presentations, and photos and videos, please visit the conference website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2015\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2015\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo connect with the GA Tech Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Systems about future collaboration and events, please visit our website \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hhscenter.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehhscenter.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emsmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Participants Discuss Public Private Partnerships to Improve Health Systems and Humanitarian Development"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 7\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;annual Conference on Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) held in Johannesburg November 18-20th, 2015 drew 150 participants from 33 different countries around the world engaged in the global health and humanitarian sectors to address challenges and successful models of organizational collaboration and supply chain practices.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Private companies, NGOs, Foundations, and local and international governments demonstrated successful partnerships to improve health systems in developing countries."}],"uid":"27858","created_gmt":"2016-01-11 15:03:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:24","author":"Meghan Smithgall","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"484371":{"id":"484371","type":"image","title":"2015 HHL Conference- GATech team","body":null,"created":"1452898800","gmt_created":"2016-01-15 23:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"2015 HHL Conference- GATech team","file":{"fid":"204272","name":"867.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/867_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/867_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1698652,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/867_0.jpg?itok=_AbeUqEm"}},"484301":{"id":"484301","type":"image","title":"2015 HHL Conference Audience 1","body":null,"created":"1452898800","gmt_created":"2016-01-15 23:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"2015 HHL Conference Audience 1","file":{"fid":"204265","name":"074.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/074_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/074_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1508997,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/074_0.jpg?itok=Z6PxFMby"}},"484341":{"id":"484341","type":"image","title":"2015 HHL Conference- Keynote Col. 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