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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.

David Hargitt is the Data Manager for the Complex Emergency Database. He is in charge of data collection for CE-DAT, NGO and intergovernmental contacts, and also coordinates workshops and conferences. He did his Bachelor's degree in Biology at Hartwick College, New York, a Master's in Human Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and a Master's in Cartography and Remote Sensing at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

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.

Barabara is a Resarch Assistant at CRED and a member of the MICRODIS team. Before joining CRED in 2008, she worked as a consultant at Quintiles Consulting in the Netherlands. She earned her Bachelor in Health Sciences at the University of York and her Master’s in Science on the Control of Infectious Disease at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in London.

Nita Paliakara is a Health and Nutrition Analyst at CRED. She has her Master level degree in International Food Science and Nutrition from the University of Ghent and Bachelor level in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Bombay. She worked with the WHO in the area of Public Health Nutrition focusing on infant nutrition and micronutrients in Switzerland and Vietnam. Her research interests are in the area of quality of early nutrition as a determinant on health and on growth outcomes in both developed and developing countries.

Jose Rodriguez is a Research Assistant at CRED. He obtained a degree in veterinary medicine in 2003 at the University of Cordoba, Spain and did postgraduate studies at the Veterinary School of Maisons Alfort in Paris, France. He worked in Conservation Biology for three years in Spain and was recently trained in Biostatistics at KU Leuven. Since joining CRED in March 2009, he has been analyzing flood impacts on child malnutrition and studying the trends in exposure to floods in Europe.