CRED -

Manuel is an IT Specialist at CRED. In 2008, he worked for the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) in Guatemala on their GIS system and assisting local communities on how to use technologies in a productive and sustainable way. He also worked on the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of different development and emergency projects and programs.

Bernadette is an Administrative Assistant at CRED and is in charge of reporting for the MICRODIS project and the organization of the annual APHES summer course. She did her bachelor degree in geographical science and earned her Master’s in Science and environmental management at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Alexander F. Díaz is a Technical Computer Engineer at CRED. He has a technical computer degree from CECEP Foundation of Cali in Colombia and a background in Management and Business Administration from the Free University of Cali. Before joining CRED, Alex worked in the insurance sector and in a private energy company in Colombia as developer and as IT manager of the financial department, respectively. He also worked for ITC services in Spain as a developer in B2B and in Belgium as a developer of B2B software and in marketing.

Debarati Guha-Sapir is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at University of Louvain School of Public Health, in Brussels, Belgium. She holds an Adjunct Professorship at Tulane University Medical Centre (New Orleans) for Health and Humanitarian Aid. Trained in Calcutta University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Louvain she holds a Ph.D in epidemiology.

A Research Fellow at CRED, Olivier Degomme obtained a medical degree from the University of Ghent, an MPH from the University of Louvain (UCL) and is currently a PhD candidate at the UCL. He has been working at CRED since 2003 where he did research on excess mortality, particularly in Iraq and Darfur. He worked together with the WHO on the 2005 Mortality Survey in Darfur and with UNHCR in an analysis of data collection systems in refugee settings. His special interests are public health and epidemiology in complex emergencies.