Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Adaptability Study

Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Adaptability Study National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Project Reports Research Team Contact Us Project Partners In December 2017, MIT hosted a roundtable titled “Supply Chain Resilience: Restoring Business Operations...

Alternatives for FEMA Disaster-Related Housing Assistance

Alternatives for FEMA Disaster-Related Housing Assistance Project Reports Research Team Contact Us Project Partners In the spring of 2017, Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Robert Fenton acted on a recommendation from a national Housing...

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...

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...