Recent projects
Biography
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.
Publications
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Child malnutrition and recurrent flooding in rural eastern India: a community-based survey,
Ranja-Dash S., Mukhopadhyay A., Jose M Rodriguez-Llanes, Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha Sapir,
BMJ Open 1: e000109, 2011 -
Mortality in the Darfur Conflict: A study of large-scale patterns on a meta-analysis of small-scale survey, Dissertation submitted of the requirements for the degree of Docteur en Sciences Médicales,
Olivier Degomme
UCL, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Brussels, 2011 -
Mortality in Darfur: Lessons for Humanitarian Policy,
Olivier Degomme
MICROCON Policy Brief, 2011 -
Patterns of mortality rates in Darfur conflict,
Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha Sapir,
The Lancet, 375: 294-300, 2010 -
The Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Tshoegl, E., Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha Sapir,
A brief analysis of anthropometric surveys from 2000-2006, CRED: Brussels, 2007