Isenberg School of Management 533 - HumanitarianLogistics&HealthC

This course covers the unique challenges and prospective solutions associated with humanitarian logistics in emergency mitigation and preparedness, disaster response, and recovery. The course overviews the similarities and the differences between commercial supply chains and humanitarian relief chains, introduces performance metrics, and provides tools for the analysis and design of supply chains for humanitarian critical needs products, as well as for the coordination and learning of humanitarian organizations. It also covers such major issues as material convergence and earmarked financial funds for disasters. Guest speakers, who are experts in emergency preparedness, humanitarian healthcare, and advanced communications, will provide additional in-depth knowledge and practitioner-based experiences to support the lectures, textbook, primary source reading materials, including journal articles, case studies, newspaper articles, and videos in the course.