• Models and Metrics for Humanitarian Response Capacity

    Jason Acimovic, Jarrod GoentzelPartners: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), UN Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD), US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Many organizations stockpile inventory in strategic locations in order to respond quickly and cheaply to disasters. This project developed…

  • Outbreak and Epidemic Prevention in Liberia

    Jaya Chimnani, Jarrod Goentzel, Erin HasselbergPartner: Academic Consortium Combating Ebola in Liberia (ACCEL) September 2015 – August 2017 In 2014, the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab (MIT HRL) in the Center for Transportation & Logistics joined the Academic Consortium to…

  • Human and Modeling Approaches to Transportation Planning in Emergency Response

    Project Partners This project focuses on transportation planning for emergency response, from both a behavioral and a modeling perspective. One key element missing from our understanding of humanitarian supply chains is the role of people, whose ability to…