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Jarrod Goentzel on MIT’s Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab, AI and System Level Thinking

Jarrod Goentzel on MIT’s Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab, AI and System Level Thinking

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In this Humanitarian AI Today Voices flashpod, Eric Talbert, Co-founder of MedCycle Network guest hosts an interview with Jarrod Goentzel, founder and director of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. This interview dives into the evolution and modern practices of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab for humanitarian professionals looking to optimize crisis response through system-level thinking and technology. The discussion traces the lab’s journey from its origins during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to its needs-assessment work and market-resilience studies to it’s general shift away from reactive, event-specific planning toward building structural, "system-level" understandings of supply chains and how organizations can better anticipate bottlenecks and coordinate with the private sector. For humanitarian professionals, the interview offers a grounded, pragmatic perspective on integrating artificial intelligence into crisis response. Goentzel explicitly addresses the limitations of relying solely on automated systems, noting that AI inherently struggles with data gaps, as it is bounded by what is publicly available and cannot easily synthesize entirely unique disaster contexts on its own. To overcome this, the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab utilizes AI as an initial data-gathering and pattern-matching catalyst, which is then verified through a human-in-the-loop framework. The lab deploys a network of real-time ground-truthers who are trusted professionals embedded within the supply chain who validate the AI's outputs. This hybrid model ensures that automated data collection never compromises the absolute operational integrity required when delivering life-saving aid to vulnerable populations. The interview touches upon "polycentric governance," which is the concept of humans organically cooperating to manage common resources during crises. The lab models supply chains as complex adaptive systems and conducts "Blue Sky Studies”which are highly detailed structural mapping done when there is no active emergency to locate vulnerabilities before disaster strikes. A prime example of this is the lab’s SCAN (Supply Chain Analysis Network) mapping, which evaluated infrastructural bottlenecks in transportation and fuel pipelines. Looking toward the future of humanitarian tech, the conversation highlights cutting-edge applications of predictive modeling and advanced AI training. For AI developers, Goentzel offer’s a futuristic vision for disaster AI: rather than letting a machine application start from scratch during an active crisis, the lab is actively researching ways to pre-embed AI with complex supply chain network science and system dynamics. By providing the machine with a sophisticated baseline of structural interdependencies beforehand, the AI can immediately interpret real-time news and data influxes with extreme speed. This effectively frees up human humanitarian leaders to step away from the information onslaught and focus entirely on creating the rapid physical and collaborative connections needed to save lives. The MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab offers resources and educational platforms to connect researchers, technology experts, and ground-level aid workers. Goentzel invites listeners to join the lab’s humanitarian supply chain community and take advantage of free online course developed by the lab, like the lab’s free Humanitarian Logistics course through MITx: https://www.edx.org/learn/business-administration/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-humanitarian-logistics An article on the Lab's supply chain resilience work can be found here: https://ctl.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scmr-innovation-strategies-september-2025.pdf To learn more about Eric Talbert’s work and the MedCycle Network, check out his interview on the Grow Healthy, Help People Podcast: https://youtu.be/w495cOVVajw?si=EMZLr-zZXAWM93Oq
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