Posted
September 2, 2020
Carlson School of Management Assistant Professor Karthik Natarajan specializes in supply chain issues, especially as they affect humanitarian aid.
While the World Health Organization and others have been warning about the possibility of an airborne pandemic for years, Natarajan says most countries haven’t developed plans for how to deal with one.
“We’ve had pandemics before that impacted supply chains,” says Natarajan, referring to both the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004 and the spread of H1N1 novel influenza in 2009. “The difference is that today global supply chains are so interconnected.”
