Humanitarian Logistics

CTL's Humanitarian Logistics research project is examining supply chain strategies, processes, and technologies that will help make humanitarian operations more effective through improved forecasting, coordination, performance measurement, and  use of technology.

• Cost-Benefit Analysis for Humanitarian Logistics Information Technology. Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Thesis, ZLC 2006.  W. Appling
• Inventory Pre-positioning for Humanitarian Logistics. Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis,  MIT 2006. A. Akkihal
• Key Performance Indicators in Humanitarian Logistics. Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis, MIT 2006. A. Davidson
• The Humanitarian Relief Supply Chain: Analysis of the 2004 South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami. Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis, MIT 2005. Tim Russell (related press article ).

• Global Health Supply Chain Summit. Zaragoza, Spain, November 2008.
• Matching Supply and Need in Resource-Constrained Settings. Session Track at CSCMP Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 2008.
• Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Review. Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference, Boston April/May 2006. Edgar Blanco and Jarrod Goentzel.
• The 2004 Tsunami Relief Supply Chains. Joint work with The Fritz Institute presented at Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference, Boston  April/May 2006. Jarrod Goentzel and Tim Russell.

Project Directors

• Edgar E. Blanco
• Jarrod Goentzel

• EM-DAT
• The Fritz Institute
• INSEAD Research Group in Humanitarian Operations
• ReliefWeb

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