CEGIST members Ana Póvoa and Susana Relvas were awarded with the “Best EJOR Paper 2023”, in the category of Innovative Applications in Operational Research, with the scientific article “Building disaster preparedness and response capacity in humanitarian supply chains using the Social Vulnerability Index”. In this study, in which researchers from the United Kingdom, Colombia and Brazil participated, a new approach to the humanitarian supply chain is proposed, seeking to reinforce the response capacity in territories traditionally occupied by people with greater social vulnerability and where the lack of resources makes usually insurmountable supply of victims' needs.
The award is given by EURO – The Association of European Operational Research Societies, which annually selects the three best articles published in the scientific journal EJOR – European Journal of Operational Research, in the categories of best research article; better application and better theory/methodology.
