Purpose This paper provides a contextualised review of research in the area humanitarian and emergency relief logistics, providing insights with particular emphasis on lessons learned. The tracks evolution against development partner networks key global events; information was collated assimilated from cross-cutting themes such as disaster preparedness, response structures transferability comme...

During disaster times, we need specific information to rapidly plan a disaster response, especially in sudden-onset disasters. Due to the inadequate capacity of Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS), many developing countries face a lack of quality pre-disaster health-related data and efficient post-disaster data processes in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Considering the significan...

A temporo-spatial stochastic model is formulated for analysing the problem of positioning of humanitarian relief centres for optimum disaster-relief management. Disasters occur in a line segment region of the real line according to a Poisson process. Two relief centres are positioned at two different points of the line segment for providing humanitarian relief to the disaster sites. The station...

In this paper, we address a two-echelon humanitarian logistics network design problem involving multiple central warehouses (CWs) and local distribution centers (LDCs) and develop a novel two-stage scenariobased possibilistic-stochastic programming (SBPSP) approach. The research is motivated by the urgent need for designing a relief network in Tehran in preparation for potential earthquakes to ...

Speed is a central value for emergency logistics stakeholders. Emergency response literature makes a compelling case for rapid logistics processes to provide goods and services in humanitarian emergencies. However, speed is not a well-defined concept. While situational demand contributes to the need for speed, an important factor is the perception of speed given the experience of the response s...

Low- and middle-income countries carry a disproportionate share of the global burden of pediatric surgical disease and have limited local healthcare infrastructure and human resources to address this burden. Humanitarian efforts that have improved or provided access to necessary basic or emergency surgery for children in these settings have included humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, ...

Humanitarian organizations pre-position relief items in pre-disaster and distribute them to the affected areas in post-disaster. Improper planning of emergency operations causes more deaths in post-disaster. In this paper, the problem of relief item pre-positioning and multi-period distribution planning is addressed considering lateral transhipment among distribution centres to improve the effi...