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...

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...