MIT CTL offering humanitarian logistics course

After a successful first session, MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics is offering a second session of its humanitarian logistics course, to be taught by MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab Director Jarrod Goentzel.

This course is free for an audit learner and for a limited time, MIT’s edX will offer 30% for those that want to obtain a verified certificate. The course runs for 9 weeks and is created by the same team behind the MITx MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management.

You can sign up here.

The course will explore how supply chain management concepts and methods can be applied within dynamic, resource-constrained contexts. According to MIT, students will learn how to professionally plan emergency operations that deliver essential goods and services to people affected by natural disaster, epidemic, pandemic, famine, armed conflict, complex emergency, and other humanitarian crises. Course topics are also foundational for understanding how international and economic development efforts support market resilience in meeting community needs during crisis.

The course is designed to accommodate students from various backgrounds, including those with limited supply chain or humanitarian experience. It can be an avenue into:

• Social impact – humanitarian action makes direct impact through tangible operations
• Professional engagement – course knowledge enables you to professionally interact with humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, and World Vision; United Nations agencies such as World Food Program (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF; and national, regional, or local government emergency management agencies (e.g. FEMA), ministries or departments of public health and human services, and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
• New careers – the course credential can open career opportunities in humanitarian roles such as operations/program analyst, supply chain manager, emergency manager, emergency planner, emergency program director, procurement assistant/officer, logistics assistant/officer, program assistant/officer.

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