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Debarati Guha-Sapir is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research focuses extensively on health professions and intersects with fields such as sociology and political science, emergency medical services, health toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as clinical psychology.

The primary areas of their work include health and conflict studies, disaster response and management, climate change and health impacts, migration, health and trauma, disaster management and resilience, global maternal and child health, and viral infections and outbreaks research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Debarati Guha-Sapir include:

  • Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Human and economic impacts of natural disasters: can we trust the global data? (2022, Scientific Data)
  • Global population profile of tropical cyclone exposure from 2002 to 2019 (2023, Nature)
  • Why predict climate hazards if we need to understand impacts? Putting humans back into the drought equation (2020, Climatic Change)
  • The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality (2023, The Lancet)

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout
  • Maria Moitinho de Almeida
  • Sarah Elizabeth Scales
  • Jee Won Park
  • Rebecca Nixon

Debarati Guha-Sapir has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Lancet
  • Conflict and Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Best Publications

  • Annual disaster statistical review 2011: the numbers and trends

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Femke Vos;Regina Below;Sylvain Penserre

  • Dengue fever: new paradigms for a changing epidemiology.

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Barbara Schimmer

  • Thirty years of natural disasters 1974-2003: The numbers

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;David Hargitt;Philippe Hoyois

  • Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

    Jennifer Leaning;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • EM-DAT: The CRED/OFDA International Disaster Database

    D. Guha-Sapir;R. Below;P. Hoyois

  • Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning.

    Joern Birkmann;Ali Jamshed;Joanna M. McMillan;Daniel Feldmeyer

  • Global trends in satellite-based emergency mapping

    Stefan Voigt;Fabio Giulio-Tonolo;Josh Lyons;Jan Kučera

  • Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2014 : The numbers and trends

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Philippe Hoyois;Regina Below

  • Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2009

    Femke Vos;José Rodriguez-Llanes;Regina Below;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • Patterns of mortality rates in Darfur conflict

    Olivier Degomme;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • Measuring psychological resilience to disasters: are evidence-based indicators an achievable goal?

    Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes;Femke Vos;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • Disaster Category Classification and Peril Terminology for Operational Purposes

    Regina Below;Angelika Wirtz;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • Impacts of flood on health: epidemiologic evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam

    Tran Huu Bich;La Ngoc Quang;Le Thi Thanh Ha;Tran Thi Duc Hanh

  • Annual Statistical Review: Numbers and Trends 2012

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Philippe Hoyois;Regina Below

  • Annual disaster statistical review 2013 : the numbers and trends.

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;P. Hoyois;Regina Below

  • Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria: a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset, 2011-16.

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Benjamin Schluter;Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes;Louis Lillywhite

  • Rapid assessment of health needs in mass emergencies: review of current concepts and methods

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  • Child malnutrition and recurrent flooding in rural eastern India: a community-based survey

    Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes;Shisir Ranjan-Dash;Olivier Degomme;Alok Mukhopadhyay

  • Annual Disaster Statistical Review: Numbers and Trends 2013

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Philippe Hoyois;Regina Below

  • Annual Disaster Statistical Review: Numbers and Trends 2007

    Jean-Michel Scheuren;Olivier le Polain de Waroux;Regina Below;Debarati Guha-Sapir

  • Annual Disaster Statistical Review: Numbers and Trends 2015

    Debarati Guha-Sapir;Philippe Hoyois;Regina Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Hiroshi Nishiura
Hiroshi Nishiura Kyoto University
Simon D. Donner
Simon D. Donner University of British Columbia
Miguel D. Mahecha
Miguel D. Mahecha Leipzig University
Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Molly E. Brown
Molly E. Brown University of Maryland, College Park
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Chris Funk
Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara

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