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Introduction
Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-Rio) and founder and coordinator of the HANDs Lab – Humanitarian Assistance and Needs for Disasters (http://www.hands.ind.puc-rio.br).
Research Affiliate of the Post-Graduate Program in Logistic Systems Engineering at the University of São Paulo – USP (São Paulo, Brazil) and the master program in Humanitarian Logistics and Management (MASHLM) at the University of Lugano (Switzerland).
President of the POMS Caribbean & Latin American Chapter. Leader of the regional research initiative in Humanitarian logistics and relief operations of the MIT SCALE Latin America Network.
She teaches and researches in Operations Management and Supply Chain Risk Management.
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January 2013 - present
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Malaria remains a significant public health concern in several developing countries. Tropical weather, coupled with poor environmental and socioeconomic conditions, increases mosquito activity and disease transmission in impoverished nations. The most effective strategy to prevent and control malaria is the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets, or...
Os sistemas de alerta ajudam a reduzir danos e a salvar vidas em áreas afetadas por desastres. O Alerta Rio é um sistema de alerta por sirene que está instalado em 102 comunidades na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, alertando contra o risco de deslizamentos de terra causados por chuva forte. O objetivo desse artigo é analisar a percepção da população sobr...
Este artigo aborda a questão da seca, que afeta muitas famílias brasileiras há muitos anos, sendo os primeiros registros do final do século XVI. Foram identificados os principais estudos sobre este tema e, em seguida, foi analisado o histórico de políticas públicas para mitigação desses efeitos. Pôde-se verificar desde 1909 que diversas organizaçõe...
O número e a intensidade dos desastres geram impactos significativos em termos de bens e vidas humanas. Apesar da ocorrência histórica de desastres no Brasil, o aprimoramento das estruturas brasileiras para gestão de operações em desastres é recente. Assim, através de um estudo de casos múltiplos, o presente artigo desenvolve uma comparação entre a...
Os programas de transferência de renda são considerados ferramentas importantes para o acesso das pessoas necessitadas aos serviços básicos. Dessa maneira, levando em consideração a importância desses programas para o desenvolvimento da sociedade, este estudo possui o objetivo de apresentar um panorama geral dos impactos do principal programa de tr...
A cadeia de suprimento de vacinas possui grandes desafios e é cada vez mais reconhecida como assunto de grande relevância no mundo todo. Nesse contexto, a estrutura do sistema logístico eficiente passa por decisões relacionadas ao planejamento da demanda, compra das vacinas, planejamento e controle dos níveis de estoques, armazenamento, conservação...
This paper discusses the social risk supply chain management through a case study in a Brazilian company. We map the social risks and the main consequences of these risks tracked by the organization. By comparing the findings of the case study with the literature, the paper contributes to the academic studies with 2 new social risks, the main conse...
This article seeks to perform an analysis of the existing methods of disaster economic assessment, regardless of their type (long duration or sudden), describing their objectives and evolutionary process through references found in the literature. The inclusion of new methods (crowdsourcing; epidemiological models; augmented reality; cloud; neural...
The present paper explores the environmental risk supply chain management through multiple case studies conducted in three Brazilian companies. We compare the literature findings with the business reality, bringing insights on how environmental risks are managed by industries and their supply chains, what the potential losses perceived by companies...
O aumento da ocorrência de desastres naturais tem afetado milhares de pessoas ao redor do mundo. Com a importância crescente do apoio dos militares na resposta a desastres, este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e analisar o emprego do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais (CFN) em apoio a Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) nas ações de resposta ao Furacão...
As organizações estão sujeitas a diversos tipos de ameaças, incidentes e pressões das partes interessadas, no presente cenário brasileiro. A gestão de continuidade de negócios surge com o objetivo de implementar estratégias para mitigar ou até eliminar os impactos de determinados eventos e riscos presentes nas organizações, evitando interromper sua...
Purpose
Due to the unknown location, size and timing of disasters, the rapid response required by humanitarian operations (HO) faces high uncertainty and limited time to raise funds. These harsh realities make HO challenging. This study aims to systematically capture the complex dynamic relationships between operations in humanitarian settings.
De...
Humanitarian Operations (HOs), aimed at minimizing the impact of disasters, have synergies and tradeoffs with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs aim to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. For example, the affected region’s poverty index (SDG 1) may increase due to climate-related disasters (SDG 13),...
This paper trains a household-level disaster risk classifier based on supervised machine learning algorithms for cold wave-related disasters. The households' features considered for this task proxy multiple dimensions of vulnerability to disasters accounting for economic, health, social, and geographical conditions. These features are theoretically...
Paper aims
This paper aims the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA) as an assessment tool to answer the following research questions: (i) Who are the actors in Humanitarian Operations Networks (HON)?; (ii) Which actors exert influence on HON?; and (iii) How do HONs form?
Originality
The use of Social Network Analysis (SNA) allows us identifying th...
Drought is recognized as a devastating natural hazard, affecting human livelihood and causing a substantial economic impact. Consequently, experts and decision-makers concentrate on new approaches to reducing droughts’ economic and social effects through studies that focus on the monitoring, prediction, and risk analysis of drought to inform drough...
Disasters can severely impact supply chains (SCs), including all stakeholders involved. This study aims to identify the impacts of major disasters on SCs and countermeasure strategies. Based on a systematic literature review, we analyse 160 documents to propose a taxonomy, research agenda, and framework. The taxonomy encompasses a list of impacts c...
The ongoing political crisis in Venezuela is the cause of one of the most substantial migratory movements in recent history, attracting the attention of academics interested in social-impact. This study analyses the Brazilian Federal Government’s Operational response to receive and assist Venezuelans migrating into Brazil. We develop a process mode...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected Food Supply Chains (FSCs), causing impacts that interfere with the normal flow of operations. This paper analyzes the COVID-19 impacts on FSCs and the main strategies to minimize their adverse effects. The research adopts a scoping review to identify impacts and strategies and an empirical study cons...
Societal awareness and legislation changes concerning sustainability have affected how organizations generate value for stakeholders, as well as their processes, products, and public relations. In the context of increasing environmental and social awareness, more studies are needed regarding reverse logistics lot-sizing control taking into account...
Goal: This paper investigates the nature of the academic literature on the disasters’ impacts on Supply Chains (SC) and the strategies adopted to minimize their adverse effects.
Design / Methodology / Approach: Based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), we conduct a bibliometric analysis of 129 documents to assess the significant publications’...
Purpose
The research areas of humanitarian supply chain (HSC) and disaster and humanitarian operations (DHO) have evolved through the use of managerial models. Recent studies, however, point to the need for the empirical validation of such managerial models in real-life scenarios. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the validation of r...
Em seus boletins e notas técnicas, divulgados desde o início da pandemia, o Observatório Covid-19 Fiocruz tem apresentado dados, informações e balanços que indicam uma série de tendências para os sistemas e organizações de saúde de todo o país. Em meio a esse contexto, o Observatório e a Editora Fiocruz lançam mais um e-book gratuito, reunindo um c...
Em seus boletins e notas técnicas, divulgados desde o início da pandemia, o Observatório Covid-19 Fiocruz tem apresentado dados, informações e balanços que indicam uma série de tendências para os sistemas e organizações de saúde de todo o país. Em meio a esse contexto, o Observatório e a Editora Fiocruz lançam mais um e-book gratuito, reunindo um c...
Purpose
This paper proposes a maturity model (MM) for assessing disaster operations and identifying strategies for organisations to evolve their maturity stages.
Design/methodology/approach
This study applies a systematic literature review to identify state-of-the-art work related to maturity models for disaster operations. In addition, the study...
The governments' isolation measures to contain the transmission of COVID-19 imposed a dilemma for the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Since these people have very unreliable sources of income, a dilemma arises: they must either work under risky conditions or refrain from work and suffer from income cuts. Emergency donations of food and cleanin...
Abstract Paper aims This paper analyzes the food aid supply and distribution for famine relief by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia. Food insecurity has increasingly affected people around the world. Furthermore, the characteristics of the provision of humanitarian aid in insecure regions pose several additional challenges over traditional...
The epidemics and pandemics can severely affect food supply chains, including producers, retailers, wholesalers, and customers. To minimize their impacts, it is fundamental to implement effective policies that ensure continuity in the provision, affordability, and distribution of basic food items. This research identifies the main impacts of pandem...
The main objective of humanitarian logistics is to save lives and alleviate human suffering before and after a disaster onset. However, the available resources may not be enough to meet the beneficiaries’ demand. Thus, the deprivation cost is a way of quantifying human suffering, given an unmet demand. In this paper, we carried out a systematic rev...
The number of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers have dramatically increased in the past few years as a result of instability, socio-economic crises, and natural and human-made disasters. This growth of migratory movements has attracted the attention of academics interested in social-impact oriented research. In this context, this paper propose...
Drought is one of the most critical meteorological hazards that has a devastating effect on natural habitats, ecosystems, and many economic and social sectors. Due to these severe impacts of drought events, many studies have focused on drought monitoring, prediction, and risk analysis to aid drought preparedness plans and mitigation measures. This...
Purpose
This paper aims to identify the main performance criteria for Humanitarian Operations (HOs) from the beneficiary perspective and to propose a taxonomy to support the evaluation of stakeholders.
Design/methodology/approach
The research conducts a Systematic Literature Review to identify the main criteria in HOs from the beneficiary's view....
In 2020, the world was faced with COVID-19, classified as a global pandemic, and this repercussion of the disease generated a high flow of information on social networks. Based on a systematic review of the literature, this article sought to discuss how social media can help analyze data on infectious diseases that cause epidemics and pandemics and...
Due to the great concern with sustainable development, new Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) models are no longer restricted only to traditional economic issues. However, they also focus on sustainability issues, especially regarding environmental aspects. However, the studies addressing the EPQ models together with sustainable issues, remain poor...
Economic production quantity models are traditionally used in industries. From the original model, where the possibility of imperfect items in production is not considered, new developments and improvements were proposed over the years seeking to make the model as realistic as possible. However, many industries can benefit from selling these imperf...
To increase the suitability of the existing models to real-life situations, this paper proposes a new Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) model for products with constant deterioration, the possibility of shortages, and Advanced-Cash-Credit (ACC) payment policy. This policy has three phases: (1) the buyer pays a part before the items are delivered,...
The discussion of risks in the supply chains is no longer restricted to the financial perspective and also considers social and environmental dimensions in the research on Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM). Nevertheless, the relationship between the social and environmental dimensions remains scarce in SCRM studies. Thus, this research aims to ex...
Disaster response organizations need to be increasingly efficient to be able to serve the majority of people affected. In this scenario, disaster operations management must be very well managed and executed. Thus, this paper aims to apply a Maturity Model to evaluate disaster response processes of the Civil Defense of the State of Rio de Janeiro (B...
The disaster response currently involves an increasing number of different stakeholders, and understating their wants and needs is essential to managing them. Thus, the research goal of this paper is to identify and analyze the satisfactions of the main stakeholders involved in complex relationships during the disaster response process. First, this...
Process analysis, models and management are considered relevant issues with several benefits to disaster response operations. Thus, the goal of this paper is to analyze the existing process models on disaster response operations and combine their different perspectives to develop a reference process model. A systematic literature review is conducte...
This paper provides an illustrative example of the application of a unified disaster economic assessment framework. The results aim to highlight the primary targets of the proposed framework as its replicability, usability, comparison, capability and generality (applicability to different disaster types).
The environmental supply chain risk management has emerged as a prominent research topic in the past few years. This work proposes, through a systematic literature review, a taxonomy for environmental risks and presents the findings to support future works on environmental supply chain risks.
This paper analyzes the evolution of research on drought mitigation and prevention over the years through a systematic literature review. The results indicate the publication trends for future studies.
This paper aims to analyze, through a systematic literature review, the research scenario related to performance indicators in humanitarian operations from the perspective of the beneficiary. The results cover a descriptive analysis of the main research characteristics and trends in the existing literature.
This research aims to analyze comparatively the responses to the earthquake (2010) and the hurricane Mathew (2016) occurred in Haiti according to the perspective of the Brazilian Navy operations. The results reveal an improvement in the hurricane response that can be associated with preventive and planned collaborative strategies.
Even abolished, slavery is still practiced in the world. Through a literature review, this paper aims to analyze modern slavery in global production networks. We present definitions of modern slavery and contribute to increasing awareness of rethinking the favoring of the global economy to the detriment of modern slave laborers.
Paper aims
Considering that disaster preparedness is essential for a prompt and effective response, this paper presents a study to locate disaster relief supplies.
Originality
This paper marks the first time a multi-criteria stochastic methodology addresses humanitarian location problems.
Research method
We propose a multi methodology approach th...
Vector control, particularly distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), constitutes one of the major pathways to prevent and reduce malaria transmission. ITN distribution campaigns face several challenges, such as inadequate funding, budgetary constraints, hard-to-reach areas, limited transportation, and market and price volatility. While...
This thematic issue called Opportunities & Challenges for Operations Management of the Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management (BJO&PM) presents contemporaneous discussions of operations management, which is valuable for both the Brazilian and international audience. The papers presented in this thematic issue are selected based o...
The disaster response faces several problems related to the management of different stakeholders. On the one hand, integrated frameworks that could support the management of these stakeholders lacks adherence to the disaster and humanitarian context. On the other hand, the Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HSCM) research is currently composed o...
Risk management in supply chains has emerged as one of the most attractive research topics in the supply chain management field. However, much more is still needed towards hedging against environmental risks. The recent environmental scandals and accidents bring to light the negligence of the environmental issues by supply chains. The present study...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a Humanitarian Purchasing Matrix to guide purchasing strategies for relief items in humanitarian operations.
Design/methodology/approach
The research synthesizes the structures of a Purchasing Portfolio Model and the characteristics of purchasing in humanitarian operations, validating them with acade...
Paper aims Based on the naval logistics doctrine, this paper describes and analyzes the Brazilian Navy's actions and the obstacles encountered in humanitarian operations conducted during the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, both in 2010. Originality The main contribution is to report the use of Brazilian military personnel in humanitarian operations...
The risk management inherent in a company's supply chain has become a decisive line for its growth, generating a competitive differential. The literature on risk management is diverse; however, much has been studied on the financial risks and little on the social risks in which the supply chain of a company may be involved. The current scenario is...
The importance of this study lies with the significant number of disasters reported over the past decades, the financial volume traded, and due the associated damages and losses. Despite its importance, finding an economic cost assessment methodology to address disasters of small and large proportions as well as to cover all disaster cost types is...
Um dos principais processos na resposta a desastres é a evacuação em massa da população afetada. Considerando a resposta ao vazamento da usina nuclear de Chernobyl, ao furacão Katrina, ao vazamento na usina nuclear de Fukushima após o tsunami no Japão em 2011, e ao rompimento da barragem em Mariana, este artigo visa comparar o processo de evacuação...
Paper aims
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current Brazilian Integrated Disaster Information System (S2iD), designed to qualify and give transparency to the disaster management in Brazil.
Originality
Providing an analysis of the system features and its prioritization, this paper can also serve as a reference for implementing software f...
Researchers have proposed the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in humanitarian relief to search for victims in disaster‐affected areas. Once UAVs must search through the entire affected area to find victims, the path‐planning operation becomes equivalent to an area coverage problem. In this study, we propose an innovative method for solving s...
