INTRODUCTION Chronic diseases are major causes of death and disability and often require multiple prescribed medications for treatment and control. Public health emergencies (e.g., disasters due to natural hazards) that disrupt the availability or supply of these medications may exacerbate chronic disease or even cause death. PROBLEM A repository of chronic disease pharmaceuticals and medical...

Alleviating human sufferings during and in the aftermath of disasters is one most important goals humanitarian relief logistics. The lack commodities, especially life-saving items, a life-threatening loss to victims must be considered when making emergency supply allocation transportation decisions, even pre-disaster prepositioning phase. This paper proposes scenario-based stochastic program th...

COVID-19 has had a major impact on health, economic, social, and industrial activities. It disrupted supply chain management affected the movement of essential supplies to large extent. This study aims identify evaluate challenges hampering sustainable humanitarian (SHSCM). Twenty critical SHSCM are identified using comprehensive literature review, three strategies were developed. The verified ...

We consider a variant of the contact process concerning multi-commodity allocation on networks. In this process, the demands for several types of commodities are initially given at some specified vertices and then the demands spread interactively on a contact graph. To allocate supplies in such a dynamic setting, we use a modified version of PageRank vectors, called Kronecker PageRank, to ident...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...