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...

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...

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...

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...