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  • Healthcare
  • Humanitarian
  • Metrics
  • Optimization
  • Resilience
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This project uses a stochastic linear programming (LP) model to evaluate the capacity of the five United Nations Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRDs) to respond to a single potential disaster: what expected percentage of people affected may receive emergency relief items and in what period of time? The model also recommends how to pre-position relief items throughout the depots to minimize the expected delivery time.

Authors: Jian Wang and Kathryn K. Nishimura
Advisors: Dr. Jarrod Goentzel and Jason Acimovic

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