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Be open to possibility. Take opportunities. Learn from experience. And translate science into policy and action. These maxims have guided Dr. Debby Guha-Sapir, who over the past three decades has been—and continues to be—a leader in developing the discipline of conflict and disaster epidemiology. After receiving her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Louvain in Belgium, Dr. Guha-Sapir was employed there as a junior researcher. The professor she was assisting offered her a choice between stable, well-paid work inputting research data and exploring opportunities to apply her epidemiology skills in the wake of disasters in other countries. When she learned that Médecins Sans Frontières was seeking an epidemiologist to investigate the impact of famine in Chad, she took that opportunity....

Author

Barry S. Levy

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN