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Welcome
The registration for the conference is now closed, if you still want to attend please drop us an e-mail.
In recent years, various analysts have attempted to estimate death tolls in armed conflicts, including in Iraq and Darfur. As the results showed some inconsistencies, this has led to much discussion on the best approaches for collecting and analyzing such mortality data.
In this context, the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, in collaboration with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is organizing an innovative, inter-disciplinary symposium on the different techniques and applications for the estimation of mortality during armed conflicts. The aim is to strengthen the scientific basis by drawing on recent progress in disciplines such as field epidemiology, demography, forensics and statistical analyses. Although meetings within each discipline have previously been held, the objective of this symposium is to build bridges between these disciplines and develop complementary approaches towards better and more reliable estimations of mortality in armed conflicts.
The symposium will be divided into five sessions (full agenda here).
The conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium on November 6th and 7th, 2008. Attendance for 40 participants will be at no charge, but travel costs will be incurred by participants.
Please contact Dr. Olivier Degomme (olivier.degomme@uclouvain.be) or Ruwan Ratnayake (ruwan.ratnayake@uclouvain.be) to confirm your interest.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely yours,
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Director, CRED
Professor, University of Louvain School of Public Health
Jennifer Leaning
Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health