Debarati Guha-Sapir (born in Kolkata, India) 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.
[2] Guha-Sapir has been the director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters since 1992, when founder Michel F. Lechat retired.
In addition to her academic work, Guha-Sapir was also a member of the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria,[5] and of the selection committee for the 2017 King Baudouin African Development Prize.
[6] Since 2019, she has been a member of the Lancet–SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, chaired by Tarja Halonen.