Debarati Guha-Sapir


Debarati Guha-Sapir is an Indian epidemiologist and public health researcher based in Belgium. She is the director of the Université catholique de Louvain Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.

Early life and education

Guha-Sapir holds a BA with honors in Humanities from the University of Calcutta, a M.S. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from the Université catholique de Louvain.

Career

Guha-Sapir has been the director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters since 1992, when founder Michel F. Lechat retired. She previously held a position as an adjunct professor at Tulane University School of Medicine. Her research interests and specialties include climate security, social determinants of health, civil conflict and natural disasters, and child mortality and health.
In addition to her academic work, Guha-Sapir was also a member of the Lancet-AUB 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.

Recognition

In 2009 Guha-Sapir won the Peter Safar Award for Services to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.

Personal life

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

Selected publications

Books (Monographs)

  1. Borde, Alexandre, Indhira Santos, and Debarati Guha-Sapir. 2013. ‘‘’’ Oxford University Press.

    Journal Articles

  2. Rodriguez-Llanes, Jose M., Debarati Guha-Sapir, Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter, and Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks. . ‘‘Conflict and Health’’. 12.
  3. van Loenhout, Joris Adriaan Frank, Tefera Darge Delbiso, Anna Kiriliouk, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, Johan Segers, and Debarati Guha-Sapir. . ‘‘BMC Public Health’’. 18.
  4. van Loenhout, Joris Adriaan Frank, Julita Gil Cuesta, Jason Echavez Abello, Debarati Guha-Sapir. . ‘‘PLOS One’’. 13.
  5. Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Benjamin Schlüter, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Llanes, Louis Lillywhite, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks. . ‘‘The Lancet’’. 6.
  6. Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Ruwan Ratnayake. . ‘‘PLOS One’’. 6.
  7. Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Willem G. Van Panhuis, Joel Lagoutte. . ‘‘Tropical Medicine & International Health’’. 12 : 1338-41.
  8. Guha-Sapir, Debarati and Olivier Degomme. . ‘‘’’.