When disasters strike - earthquakes, floods, outbreaks of disease, and war - televisions show images of relief workers delivering emergency food and water supplies, aid agencies establishing shelters, and doctors delivering medicines to patients in need. But how do these supplies get to the people who need them? Health and humanitarian logisticians are the unsung heroines and heroes who take on the formidable task of supplying the resources needed in a humanitarian response. Traditionally, health and humanitarian supply chains have been seen as a male domain but, as this book shows, this is a...
When disasters strike - earthquakes, floods, outbreaks of disease, and war - televisions show images of relief workers delivering emergency food and w...