Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations

Modeling Approaches and Metrics to Evaluate Nonprofit Operations.- Disaster Response Logistics: Chief Findings of Fieldwork Research.- Cash as a Form of Relief.- Measuring Markets that Supply Cash-Based Humanitarian Interventions.- Partner Proliferation Problem in Disaster Response Networks.- How Humanitarian Culture Informs Change Adoption: A Case Study of Humanitarian Logistics.- Information Visibility in Humanitarian Operations: Current State-of-the-Art.- Efficient Inventorying and Distribution of Blood Product During Disasters.- The Vaccine Supply Chain Multathlon: the Reconciliation of Technology, Economy and Access to Medicines.- Achieving Equity, Effectiveness, and Efficiency in Food Bank Operations: Strategies for Feeding America with Implications for Global Hunger Relief.- Understanding Resilience: A Spatio-temporal Vulnerability Assessment of a Population Affected by A Sudden Lack of Food.

Nezih Altay is an Associate Professor at the Driehaus College of Business of DePaul University. He earned his PhD in Operations Management from Texas A&M University. Dr. Altay is an experienced and highly qualified teacher-scholar. His research specializes in after-sale service operations, disruption management and humanitarian supply chains. He has published his research in leading academic journals and presented in national and international arenas. He co-edited a book titled Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control that was published also with Springer. He is the co-Editor-in-chief for the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and directs the Master program in Supply Chain Management at DePaul University.

Mark Haselkorn is a Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is Director of the new university Center on Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety & Regional Resilience (CoSSaR) and currently leads the Maritime Operations Information Sharing (MOISA) project, a research partnership sponsored by three Federal Agencies -- DHS Interagency Operations Center (IOC), Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), and National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) - with the goal of better understanding and enhancing the information sharing requirements for regional maritime safety and security. He also is a lead investigator on an AHRQ R01 to develop work and information centered methods for achieving evidence-based health information technology. Dr. Haselkorn also conducts research for the Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center and has completed an NSF initiative to define the emerging frontier of "Humanitarian Service Science & Engineering." He has worked with the military on a number of projects, including the integration of DOD and VA electronic medical records and the Air Force's strategic