Julie L. Swann
Co-director
Health and Humanitarian Logistics Center
Dr. Julie Swann (PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University) is an associate professor in the School of ISyE at Georgia Tech and a Co-director of the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Center. Dr. Swann focuses on developing models and analytical methods to solve problems in logistics and supply chain management and inform decisions in health systems and policymaking.
Dr. Swann’s research areas intersect in her work in humanitarian supply chains, where she co-founded and co-directs the Health and Humanitarian Logistics research center in the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. In this area, she is developing educational and outreach programs to governmental and non-governmental organizations that are involved in planning for and responding to humanitarian crises. Recent collaborations have been to improve planning and response to pandemic influenza and to design supply chains and prepositioning of inventory in global humanitarian supply chains. She has worked with numerous organizations including the American Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State of Georgia, The Home Depot, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Waffle House, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Swann is a co-chair of the annual Health and Humanitarian Logistics conference and an Editor of the Interfaces journal special issue on Humanitarian Applications. In 2004 she received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2009-2010, she was also on loan as a Senior Science Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the Preparedness and Modeling Unit and working on the H1N1 response.