La presa di decisioni nelle crisi umanitarie: il problema è la politica, non solo l’evidenza

About the Authors

SANDRO COLOMBO started his career as epidemiologist in Torino, in Benedetto Terracini’s unit. He moved to Mozambique in the mid 1980s and, since then, he has been working abroad for a variety of agencies: the UN (WHO and UNCHR), the EU, and several NGO, mainly in conflict-affected Countries: Angola, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Uganda, and Palestine. He also worked in large-scale disasters, like in the response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2015. His main areas of work and interest include health systems analysis in conflicts and post-conflict transitions, health information management and field epidemiology in emergencies. He lives in Madrid with his daughter Sara, dog Lara, and cats Coco and Zazie.
Correspondence to: sandrocolombo@live.com

FRANCESCO CHECCHI is an epidemiologist whose main expertise is quantitative public health measurement and disease control in crisis (armed conflict, natural disaster, epidemic) settings. He worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Health Organization, and as a consultant for a variety of other agencies. He spent several years at the School (2004-2012, 2017-present), and in between led Save the Children’s humanitarian health team. He mixed experience in research, policy formulation, and operational programme delivery in difficult and insecure settings. He does not have a specific disease focus, though in the past he has done work on malaria, human African trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, cholera, Ebola, acute malnutrition and vaccines.
Correspondence to: francesco.checchi@lshtm.ac.uk