• Decision Support for Post-Harvest Loss in Tanzania

    Jarrod Goentzel, Mark BrennanPartner: Global Knowledge Initiative One-third of the world’s available food either spoils or gets thrown away. Post-harvest loss is a challenge that an increasing number of organizations across sub-Saharan Africa aim to address. Losses can be…

  • Ebola Response in Liberia

    Jaya Chimnani, Jarrod Goentzel, Marianne JahrePartner: ACCEL Over the past seven years, the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has led a consortium of academic medical centers including Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Teaching Hospitals, that supports medical education through clinical…

  • 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…

  • Private Supply Chains in Disaster Response

    Karn Budhiraj, Gabriel de la Torre In times of disaster, demand for goods and services in affected areas spikes. Private companies generally have contingencies in place for business continuity; however, most lack a strategic approach to join the general…

  • 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…

  • Humanitarian Logistics Performance Measurement and Management

    Ira HaavistoPartner: International Rescue Committee This initiative focuses on how humanitarian organizations can measure and manage the performance of supply chain & logistics processes. With the International Rescue Committee, we developed a resource toolkit for field logistics staff including…

  • Forecasting Demand for Partners in Health

    Christine Heberley and MaPartner: Partners in Health (PIH) Partners in Health’s (PIH) supply chain in Haiti has become strained over the past five years due to the organization’s rapid growth. Under the current system, the majority of PIH’s products are…

  • Understanding Needs after the Haiti Earthquake

    The Humanitarian Response Lab worked with the US Government and members of the humanitarian community to develop a multi-sectoral humanitarian needs assessment.

  • Humanitarian Aid in Less Secure Regions

    Vidya Chander, Lauren ShearPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) The World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations food agency, has recently acquired the difficult task of transporting aid into the Somali region of Ethiopia.  The political instability, rebel activity,…