• Ebola Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards

    Maria Bassou, Emily Gooding, Marianne JahrePartner: Avenir Analytics The recent Ebola outbreak in Liberia prompted a vast international response from various governments, NGOs, and UN organizations. In the case of Personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers responding to a…

  • Food Aid Packaging Evaluation

    Mark Brennan, Jarrod Goentzel, Prithvi Sundar, MIT Comprehensive Initiative for Technology Evaluation (CITE)Partner: USAID Food for Peace began in 1954, and is implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Each year, nearly $2.2 billion is spent…

  • Post-harvest storage in Uganda

    Mark Brennan, Emily GoodingPartners: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Makerere University Various technologies have been developed to improve post-harvest food storage and reduce PHL. These products include silos, metal canisters/drums, cold chain…

  • A Framework for Assessing Disaster Response Capacity

    Lauren SeelbachPartner: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Through case studies in Florida, Louisiana and with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, we will develop a framework for emergency management organizations to evaluate how well their critical commodity stockpiles will meet the needs…

  • Understanding the Preferences of Private Sector Supply Chain Agents in Making Decisions to Stock Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

    Corinne Carland, Erin ReissmanPartner: Malaria Consortium, USAID Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are an important tool to combat malaria in resource-constrained settings. They offer a fast and accurate diagnosis of the disease and do not rely on lab equipment or specially…

  • Assessing Novel Data Sources for Post-Disaster Information Gathering

    Lauren SeelbachPartners: U.S. Department of Transportation, Idibon In this project, we conducted an assessment of the ability of Twitter data to supplement traditional information-gathering processes to create actionable information about a transportation network in an emergency. Traditional methods used by transportation…

  • A Low-Income Country’s Homegrown Solution to Clean Water

    Erin ReissmanPartner: USAID Safe water and improved sanitation are essential to human health and well being throughout the world. In India, only 33% of households treat their water, even though the water could be chemically or bacterially contaminated. So in…

  • Transportation Corridor Capacity in Ethiopia

    Sujin Kim, Javed SinghaPartner: United Nations World Food Programme The WFP’s transport of food aid to Ethiopia’s landlocked population is constrained by supply chain bottlenecks at the port, and limited availability of trucks for inland transport.  How can the…

  • Optimizing a WFP warehouse in Ethiopia

    Gina Malaver, Colin RegnierPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Humanitarian logistic organizations struggle to make strategic and tactical decisions due to their lack of resources, the unpredictability of humanitarian events and the lack of readily available information to support these decisions;…

  • Nigeria Center of Excellence in Supply Chain Management

    Jarrod Goentzel, Olumurejiwa FatundePartner: Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN) This study seeks to characterize the social and economic benefits that can be realized in Nigeria and its economic region through advanced education and research in supply chain management.…