CDEMA is a supporter of the use of analytical research to inform our practices and firmly believes that using scientific methods can be useful to improve regional disaster preparedness capacity in the Caribbean. Following this, CDEMA has established a collaboration with researchers from HEC Montréal and Özyeğin University in Istanbul to develop innovative approaches to improve its current regional prepositioning network, considering logistical infrastructures and disaster risks.

The research team is developing analytical tools to support our decision-making processes in the context of regional prepositioning to better cope with the effects of strong weather events in the Caribbean.

The research team was the winner of the 2019 Best Paper Awards recently conferred by the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management College of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) for their article entitled Collaborative Prepositioning Network Design for Regional Disaster Response. This article, co-authored by Burcu Balçık, Selene Silvestri, Marie-Ève Rancourt and Gilbert Laporte, has also been published in Production and Operations Management, a prestigious scientific journal on the Financial Times list.

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