SPPSN had a strong showing at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Sunday Nov 13, 08:00 - 09:30 : Joint Session LA/SPPSN: Community-Based Operations Research Chair: Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Sunday Nov 13, 08:00 - 09:30 : Joint Session SPPSN/HAS:Organizational Decision Making in Disaster Relief and Recovery Operations Chair: John Coles, Graduate Student, University at Buffalo

Sunday Nov 13, 11:00 - 12:30 : Health Delivery Infrastructure in Africa Chair: Jeremie Gallien, Associate Professor, London Business School

Sunday Nov 13, 13:30 - 15:00 : Joint Session Doing Good/SPPSN: Doing Good with Good OR Competition: Finalist Presentations I Chair: Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Sunday Nov 13, 13:30 - 15:00 : Pharmaceutical Procurement and Distribution in Africa Chair: Jeremie Gallien, Associate Professor, London Business School

Sunday Nov 13, 16:30 - 18:00 : Joint Session HAS/SPPSN: Disease Monitoring and Medical Decision Making Chairs: Jonathan Helm, and Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan

Sunday Nov 13, 16:30 - 18:00 : Joint Session Homeland/SPPSN/MAS: Sensors in Homeland Security Chair: Gary Gaukler, Texas A&M University

Sunday Nov 13, 16:30 - 18:00 : Joint SPPSN/LAW/CPMS:Threats to Life and Limb Chair: Arnold Barnett, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Monday Nov 14, 08:00 - 09:30 : New Directions for Emergency Medical Services Chair: Laura McLay, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Monday Nov 14, 11:00 - 12:30 : Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Relief I Chair: Irina Dolinskaya, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Monday Nov 14, 13:30 - 15:00 : Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Relief II Chair: Irina Dolinskaya, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Monday Nov 14, 16:30 - 18:00 : Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Relief III Chair: Irina Dolinskaya, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Tuesday Nov 15, 08:00 - 09:30 : Joint Session SPPSN/LA/Minority: Community-Based Operations Research I Chair: Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Tuesday Nov 15, 11:00 - 12:30 : Community-Based Operations Research II Chair: Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Tuesday Nov 15, 13:30 - 15:00 : Joint Session HAS/SPPSN: Infectious Diseases and Interventions I Chair: Hamed Yarmand, North Carolina State University

Tuesday Nov 15, 13:30 - 15:00 : Joint Session SPPSN/CPMS/LAW: Fairness and Equity in OR Models Chair: Laura McLay, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tuesday Nov 15, 16:30 - 18:00 : Community-Based Operations Research III Chair: Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Wednesday Nov 16, 08:00 - 09:30 : Joint Session SPPSN/LAW: Problems in Real-World OR Chair: John Hall, Division Director--Fire Analysis, NFPA

Wednesday Nov 16, 11:00 - 12:30 : Policy Potpourri: Pandemic Response and Sustainable Operations Chair: Dionne Aleman, University of Toronto

We extend many thanks to our cluster chairs (Jeremie Gallien and John Hollywood) and other SPPSN members who coordinated the talks for the INFORMS Annual meeting:

• Irina Dolinskay
• Jeremie Gallien
• Karen Smilowitz
• Dionne Aleman
• Laura McLay
• John Hollywood
• John Hall

We are very grateful to our officers, keynote speakers, panel and session organizers, and participants for putting together these sessions.

In addition, the SPPSN business meeting will be held during the SPPSN lunch on Sunday, November 14. We are grateful to the following sponsors for supporting this year’s SPPSN business meeting and lunch: School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech and the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston. Tickets are $10 for SPPSN members and $15 for non-members.