Debarati Guha-Sapir (born in Kolkata, India) is an Indian

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

and

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the de ...

researcher based in Belgium. She is the director of the

Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) is a research unit of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). It is part of the School of Public Health located on the UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus, in Brussels, Belgium. CRED has ...

Early life and education

Guha-Sapir holds a BA with honors in

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

from the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

(1974), a

M.S. A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medicine ...

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and Risk factor (epidemiology), determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent dise ...

and

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

from

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

(1977) and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

and

preventive medicine Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health a ...

from the

(1991).

Career

Guha-Sapir has been the director of the

since 1992, when founder Michel F. Lechat retired. She previously held a position as an adjunct professor at

Tulane University School of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tulane University and is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. History The school was founded in 183 ...

. Her research interests and specialties include

climate security Climate security is a political and policy framework that looks at the impacts of climate on security. Climate security often refers to the national and international security risks induced, directly or indirectly, by changes in climate patte ...

social determinants of health The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. They are the health promoting factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the dist ...

civil conflict The Civil Conflict (sometimes styled as the conFLiCT) was the name given by former UConn Huskies football head coach Bob Diaco to Connecticut's annual matchup against the UCF Knights football team of the University of Central Florida. The team ...

and

natural disasters A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community brought by natural phenomenon or Hazard#Natural hazard, hazard. Some examples of natural hazards include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides ...

, and

child mortality Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births. It encompa ...

and health. In addition to her academic work, Guha-Sapir was also a member of the '' Lancet''-

AUB Aub () is a town in the Würzburg (district), district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany, southeast of Würzburg and northwest of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, near the border of Baden-Württemberg. It is fed by the river Gollach and divided into t ...

Commission on Syria, and of the selection committee for the 2017 King Baudouin African Development Prize. Since 2019, she has been a member of the '' Lancet''–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, chaired by

Tarja Halonen Tarja Kaarina Halonen (, born 24 December 1943) is a Finns, Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer wit ...

Recognition

In 2009 Guha-Sapir won the

Peter Safar Peter Safar (12 April 19243 August 2003) was an Austrian anesthesiologist of Czech descent. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Early life Safar was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924 into a prominent Jewish medical ...

Award for Services to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. *

Blue Planet Prize The Blue Planet Prize recognises outstanding efforts in scientific research or applications of science that contribute to solving global environmental problems. The prize was created by the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1992, the year of the Rio Ear ...

(2023)

Personal life

Guha-Sapir lives in Brussels. She is married to Belgian economist Andre Sapir.

Selected publications

Books (Monographs)

# Borde, Alexandre, Indhira Santos, and Debarati Guha-Sapir. 2013. ‘�
The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters.
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Journal articles

# Rodriguez-Llanes, Jose M., Debarati Guha-Sapir, Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter, and Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks (2018)
Epidemiological findings of major chemical attacks in the Syrian war are consistent with civilian targeting: a short report
‘‘ Conflict and Health’’. 12 (16). # van Loenhout, Joris Adriaan Frank, Tefera Darge Delbiso, Anna Kiriliouk, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, Johan Segers, and Debarati Guha-Sapir (2018)
Heat and emergency room admissions in the Netherlands
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BMC Public Health ''BMC Public Health'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers epidemiology of disease and various aspects of public health. The journal was established in 2001 and is published by BioMed Central. Abstracting and indexing ...

’’. 18 (108). # van Loenhout, Joris Adriaan Frank, Julita Gil Cuesta, Jason Echavez Abello, Debarati Guha-Sapir (2018)
The impact of Typhoon Haiyan on admissions in two hospitals in Eastern Visayas, Philippines
‘‘ PLOS One’’. 13 (1). # Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Benjamin Schlüter, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Llanes, Louis Lillywhite, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks (2017)
Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria: a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset, 2011–16
‘‘

The Lancet ''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823. It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and also one of the oldest medical journals still in publication. The journal publishes ...

’’. 6 (1). # Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Ruwan Ratnayake (2009)
Consequences of Ongoing Civil Conflict in Somalia: Evidence for Public Health Responses
‘‘ PLOS One’’. 6 (8). # Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Willem G. Van Panhuis, Joel Lagoutte (2007)
Short communication: Patterns of chronic and acute diseases after natural disasters - A study from the International Committee of the Red Cross field hospital in Banda Aceh after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
‘‘Tropical Medicine & International Health’’. 12 (11): 1338-41. # Guha-Sapir, Debarati and Olivier Degomme (2006)
Counting the Deaths in Darfur: Estimating Mortality from Multiple Survey Data
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Households in Conflict Network
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References

External links

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staff: https://www.cred.be/staff * Debarati Guha-Sapir at the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/greenweek2009/bio/bio-guha-sapir.html * Debarati Guha-Sapir on

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