Debarati Guha-Sapir

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Debarati Guha-Sapir is an Indian epidemiologist and public health researcher who lives in Belgium. She was born in Kolkata, India, and studied at the University of Calcutta (BA Honors in Humanities), Johns Hopkins University (MS in Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and the Université catholique de Louvain (PhD in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine).

Since 1992, she has been the director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at Université catholique de Louvain. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at Tulane University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on climate security, social determinants of health, civil conflict and natural disasters, and child health.

Guha-Sapir has contributed to several commissions and prize committees, including the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria and the King Baudouin African Development Prize selection committee. Since 2019, she has served on the Lancet–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality. In 2009, she received the Peter Safar Award for Services to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. She lives in Brussels and is married to Belgian economist Andre Sapir.