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...

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...

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...

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...

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...