Debarati Guha Sapir
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.
Olivier Degomme
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.
Regina Below
Regina has worked at CRED for over 20 years. As technical support staff, she is involved in different activities of the centre and is in charge of the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) project.
David Hargitt
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).
Alexander Diaz T.
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.
Manuel Albela Miranda
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 Dubus
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)
Barbara Cichon
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.
Laura Irvine
Laura Irvine is a Research Fellow and also the Technical Officer of the European Commission funded FP6 Integrated Project MICRODIS (www.microdis-eu.be). She earned a Bachelors of Arts with Honours in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Kent at Brussels. She has been working at CRED since 2007 in project management and research.
Femke Vos
Femke is a CRED researcher on natural disaster impacts. She graduated as an Engineer in Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, specializing in Public Health. Since 2006, she has worked in Nutritional Sciences developing a database on micronutrients (INRA, France), and has participated in the European Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems. In her current role, Femke Vos works with CRED's international disaster database (EM-DAT)analyzing global data on natural disaster impacts on human society.
Jose Rodriguez Ll.
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.
Olivia D'Aoust
Olivia D’Aoust is a Research Fellow at CRED. She holds a Master's in Economics from the University of Louvain (UCL) and is currently enrolled in a Master's in Demography at the UCL. During her studies, she worked on the impact of epidemics on economic behaviours and is particularly interested in econometrics, public health and development economics.