Workshop on Humanitarian Logistics Research, Arlington, VA, September 2014

这笔赠款为举办人道主义后勤研究讲习班提供资金。 人道主义物流（HL）涉及灾难幸存者和灾难响应本身所需的关键物资的运输，处理和分配。如果人口需求得不到满足，或者关键的灾害响应功能（如搜索和救援、医疗援助等）由于缺乏关键物资而放缓或停止，则低效的人道主义将导致大规模的人类痛苦。令人遗憾的是，对这一具有国家重要性的问题的研究数量与其重要性不相称。此外，只有极少数物流研究人员研究HL的现实，有灾难研究经验的从业人员几乎没有与这些研究人员接触，而具有灾难专业知识的社会科学家与HL的学者很少互动。这些重要的群体，后勤学家，社会科学家，和咨询师，往往不合作，以改善人道主义的重要领域。研讨会的主要目标是通过以下方式解决这一问题：（1）为所有相关学科的从业人员和研究人员交流想法和经验提供一个论坛（例如，（2）帮助打破障碍，并在通常不相互交流的研究团体之间建立沟通联系;（3）确定研究议程的关键组成部分，以满足HL的基本研究需求。为了实现其目标，研讨会将围绕“人道主义物流的现实”、“人道主义物流的社会方面”、“人道主义物流的分析”和“人道主义物流的研究需求”等主题进行演讲。这些演讲之后将进行分组讨论，以确定研究议程：“人道主义物流的社会科学”和“人道主义物流的分析”。“全体讨论将综合一个全面的研究议程。研讨会报告将总结所做的工作和讨论的主要见解。 最近的超级风暴桑迪、飓风艾琳和飓风李充分证明了这一点。 该研讨会将对前瞻性研究的定义产生深远的影响，通过利用多学科领先学者的专业知识，解决该国的基本研究需求，以提高人道主义程序在灾害响应程序核心的效率。

This grant provides funding to host a workshop on Humanitarian Logistics Research. Humanitarian logistics (HL) is involved with the transportation, handling, and distribution of the critical supplies needed by both the population that survives a disaster, and the disaster response itself. Inefficient HL leads to massive human suffering if the population needs are not met, or if critical disaster response functions-such as search and rescue, medical assistance, among other-slow down, or come to a halt, due to the lack of critical supplies. Regrettably the amount of research on this subject of national importance is not commensurate with its importance. Adding to the problem, only a tiny number of researchers in logistics study the realities of HL, the practitioners that have disaster research experience have almost no contact with these researchers, while the social scientists with expertise in disasters have very few interactions with the scholars in HL. These important groups of stakeholders-logisticians, social scientists, and practitioners-tend not to work together to improve the important field of HL. The main objectives of this workshop are to address this issue by: (1) providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences between practitioners and researchers from all relevant disciplines (e.g., social sciences, engineering, logistics) on the subject of HL; (2) helping break barriers and establish links of communication between research communities that typically do not interact with each other; and, (3) defining the key components of a research agenda to addresses basic research needs on HL. To achieve its objectives, the workshop will be structured around presentations on the topics of "The Realities of Humanitarian Logistics;" "The Social Side of Humanitarian Logistics;" "The Analytics of Humanitarian Logistics;" and "Research Needs on Humanitarian Logistics." These presentations will be followed by breakout discussions to define research agendas on: "The Social Sciences of Humanitarian Logistics" and "The Analytics of Humanitarian Logistics." A plenary discussion will synthesize a comprehensive research agenda. A workshop report will summarize the work done and the key insights of the discussion. The workshop is an extremely cost-effective way to gather worldwide expertise on a subject of national significance, as amply demonstrated by the recent disaster of Super Storm Sandy, and Hurricanes Irene and Lee. The workshop will have a profound impact on the definition of a forward looking research that, by tapping into the expertise of leading scholars from multiple disciplines, addresses the basic research needs of the country to enhance the efficiency of the HL procedures at the core of disaster response procedures.