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Jose M. Rodriguez-Llanes

Jose M. Rodriguez-Llanes
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PhD

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Introduction
Studying how environmental crises, armed conflicts, and resilience intersect to impact public health, agriculture and food security. Seeking multisector solutions with community involvement to address systemic issues while respecting sustainability and local contexts.
Additional affiliations
September 2016 - August 2022
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Position
  • Research Officer
August 2016 - October 2017
Université Catholique de Louvain - UCLouvain
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • LHUMA2050 - Interdisciplinary Seminar in Humanitarian Assistance
September 2012 - August 2013
Université Catholique de Louvain - UCLouvain
Position
  • Visiting Assistant Professor (chargé de cours invité)
Description
  • WMD1200 - Principles in Epidemiology (Undergraduate students in Biomedicine and Pharmacy) [Taught in French] Eléments d'épidémiologie
Education
March 2012 - August 2016
Université Catholique de Louvain - UCLouvain
Field of study
  • Doctor in Public Health (Disaster Epidemiology & Nutrition)
September 2007 - July 2008
KU Leuven
Field of study
  • Statistics
January 2005 - April 2007
Universidad de Huelva
Field of study
  • Environmental Conservation

Publications

Publications (136)
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Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of events, creates cascading and systemic impacts, poses significant challenges to food systems research and polic...
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Background To understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, this study investigates overall, sex- and age-specific excess all-cause mortality in 20 countries, during 2020. Methods Total, sex- and age-specific weekly all-cause mortality for 2015–2020 was collected from national vital statistics databases. Excess mortality for 2020 wa...
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Refugees may be perceived as a burden to their host communities, and nutrition insecurity is a critical area of contention. We explored the relationship between refugee presence and a host community’s resilience in nutrition outcomes in Cameroon. We also tested an analytical framework for evaluating community resilience during shocks. We used data...
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Recent large-scale disasters have exposed the interconnected nature of modern societies, exacerbating the risk of cascading impacts. Examining elements of community health status, such as social determinants of health, their perceived health status, and how they relate to disaster resilience, can illuminate alternative actions for cost-effective di...
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Introduction: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries for 2020 and 2021, overall and stratified by sex and age. Methods: Total, age-specific and sex-specific weekly all-cause mortality was collected for 2015–2021 and excess mortality for 2020 and 2021 was calculated by co...
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Recent large-scale disasters have exposed the interconnected nature of modern societies, exacerbating the risk of cascading impacts. Examining elements of community health status, such as social determinants of health, their perceived health status, and how they relate to disaster resilience, can illuminate alternative actions for cost-effective di...
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Conflict in Yemen has displaced millions and destroyed health infrastructure, resulting in the world’s largest humanitarian disaster. The objective of this paper is to examine mortality in Yemen to determine whether it has increased significantly since the conflict began in 2015 compared to the preceding period. We analysed 91 household surveys usi...
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Some types of societal disruption can result in health threats and impacts not usually associated with emergency or disaster management frameworks. These frameworks are most commonly aligned to disaster definitions that are largely oriented towards predefined rapid onset hazards, often causing disasters. Disaster risk management is primarily inform...
Technical Report
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Surveillance with anthropometric indicators in young children is a cornerstone of humanitarian and development programs in the Global South. It is fundamental to detect any deterioration in the nutritional status of these vulnerable populations and provides crucial information to monitor progress towards SDG goals, effectiveness of interventions an...
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Background Since the beginning of the ongoing conflict in Yemen, >23 000 air strikes and >100 000 fatalities have been recorded. Data from Yemen Data Project linked >1300 child fatalities and >900 child injuries to air raids. However, there is little literature on the effect of the protracted armed conflict on the pattern of child mortality using d...
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Background: Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus...
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Background COVID-19 pandemic is affecting populations and regions in different ways. In this study, we assess the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) to COVID-19 across different regions. Methods We used age-group and sex-specific weekly COVID-19 deaths (from January to August 2020) from national primary sources of 17 countries from the C-MOR cons...
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Analysis of all-cause mortality is an important tool to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to investigate the magnitude and potential determinants of excess all-cause mortality, from January until August 2020, using national mortality databases from 20 countries part of the C-MOR consortium. Excess weekly mortality for...
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Objective Disaster impact databases are important resources for informing research, policy, and decision making. Therefore, understanding the underpinning methodology of data collection used by the databases, how they differ, and quality indicators of the data recorded is essential in ensuring that their use as reference points is valid. Methods T...
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Background Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Live Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus,...
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Background: This study aimed to investigate overall and sex-specific excess all-cause mortality since the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic until August 2020 among 22 countries. Methods: Countries reported weekly or monthly all-cause mortality from January 2015 until the end of June or August 2020. Weekly or monthly COVID-19 deaths were reporte...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked health systems worldwide, with visible impacts on intensive care units and emergency departments. The concept of “surge capacity” should be analyzed within this context as this crisis could be seen as an opportunity to improve the knowledge base of intensive care units and emergency departments. We reflected, base...
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The current spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Europe threats Italian capacity and that of other national health systems to effectively respond to the needs of patients who require intensive care, mostly due to pneumonia and derived complications from concomitant disease and age. Predicting the surge in capaci...
Technical Report
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Le Mali dispose d’une variété de systèmes d’information dans le vaste cadre de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle qui ne sont pas interconnectés. Il en découle une faible analyse des phénomènes d’insécurité alimentaire se résumant généralement à une description d’une situation à un temps donné. Ce rapport est un premier effort pour établir u...
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Introduction The rationale for undertaking this study was to investigate how characteristics of population health relate to and impact disaster risk, resilience, vulnerability, impact, and recovery. The multi-disciplinary environment that contextualizes disaster practice can influence determinants of health. Robust health determinants, or lack ther...
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Introduction This study profiles climate change as an emerging disaster risk in Oceania. The rationale for undertaking this study was to investigate climate change and disaster risk in Oceania. The role of this analysis is to examine what evidence exists to support decision-making and profile the nature, type, and potential human and economic impac...
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Identification and profiling of current and emerging disaster risks is essential to inform effective disaster risk management practice. Without clear evidence, readiness to accept future threats is low, resulting in decreased ability to detect and anticipate these new threats. A consequential decreased strategic planning for mitigation, adaptation...
Presentation
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Just presented at the 8th ICBR International Conference on Building Resilience held in Lisbon
Conference Paper
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The measurement of food security resilience (FSR) to shocks is yet hampered by inherent aspects of its complexity mixed up with that of food security assessment itself. Yet, there is an urgent need for scientific evidence on which to base decision-making and policies to build resilience. Niger is one of the most underdeserved and underdevelopped co...
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Unlike other disasters, injury rates after earthquakes are still on the rise at a global scale. With an estimated one million people injured by earthquakes in the last decade, the burden of injury is considerable. Importantly, the surgical procedures carried out by healthcare facilities are capable to avert part of this burden. Yet both burdens rem...
Technical Report
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The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly organized an International Conference on Quantitative Methods for Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Measurements. The conference provided a platform for researchers, academics, professionals and decision-makers to def...
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Evidence of use of toxic gas chemical weapons in the Syrian war has been reported by governmental and non-governmental international organizations since the war started in March 2011. To date, the profiles of victims of the largest chemical attacks in Syria remain unknown. In this study, we used descriptive epidemiological analysis to describe demo...
Technical Report
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The measurement of food security resilience (FSR) to shocks is yet hampered by inherent aspects of its complexity along with that of food security assessment itself. Yet, there is an urgent need for scientific evidence on which to base decision-making and policies to build resilience. Niger is one of the most underdeserved and underdevelopped coutr...
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What we know: There is a lack of global and country-specific evidence on the health impacts of climate change, especially drought, and the impact of programmes to mitigate public health and nutrition consequences. What this article adds: Recurrent droughts now pose an unprecedented threat in Ethiopia; more than 80 per cent of the population is dep...
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Background Due to a global warming-related increase in heatwaves, it is important to obtain detailed understanding of the relationship between heat and health. We assessed the relationship between heat and urgent emergency room admissions in the Netherlands. Methods We collected daily maximum temperature and relative humidity data over the period 2...
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Background: Since March, 2011, the Syrian civil war has lowered life expectancy by as much as 20 years. We describe demographic, spatial, and temporal patterns of direct deaths of civilians and opposition combatants from conflict-related violence in 6 years of war. Methods: We analysed conflict-related violent deaths with complete information on da...
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Resilience thinking can offer a useful perspective from which to tackle persisting and emerging problems in Africa. Resilience is a multifaceted phenomenon which – in very generic terms – describes the ability to thrive despite adversity. Increased resilience can help people, households, communities, countries and global institutions to better anti...
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The Syrian conflict has displaced five million individuals outside their country with Lebanon hosting the largest numbers per capita. Around 24% of Syrian refugees fleeing to Lebanon are women of reproductive age (15–49). Yet, a better understanding of the sexual and reproductive health needs of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon is required to improv...
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The study of disaster risk is primarily aimed at identifying who may be at risk (vulnerable populations) from specific events (causes) so as to prevent and/or facilitate timely responses to them. These causes are predominantly defined by historical data rather than from forecasting potential risks. Many of the threats to health and security today a...
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Despite the intuitive connection between drought and mortality, we still lack a sound quantitative synthesis of evidence drawn from the available data. In this study, we estimate the pooled under-five death rates (U5DR) and assess the effect of drought on child death in Ethiopia. Small-scale mortality surveys were searched from the Complex Emergenc...
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Study/Objective We sought to investigate the risk factors for flood lethality in the SIDS in the last 30 years (1985–2014). Background The low-lying Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are at a constant risk of floods. They are also acutely affected by climate change, in particular from rising sea levels, temperature, and rainfall increases, whi...
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Objective To estimate the prevalence of childhood wasting and to investigate the effects of drought and conflict on wasting in crisis-affected areas within Ethiopia. Methods We searched the Complex Emergency Database for nutrition surveys carried out in Ethiopia over the period 2000–2013. We extracted data on the prevalence of wasting (weight-for-h...
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Due to the conflict that started in spring 2014 in Eastern Ukraine, a total of 1.75 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled the area and have been registered in government-controlled areas of the country. This paper explores perceived health, barriers to access to healthcare, caring practices, food security, and overall financial situation...
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Hosting refugees may represent a drain on local resources, particularly since external aid is frequently insufficient. Between 2004 and 2011, over 100,000 refugees settled in the eastern border of Cameroon. With little known on how refugee influx affects health services of the hosting community, we investigated the impact of refugees on mother and...
Data
Balance of covariates after propensity score matching, DHS 2011, Cameroon. (PDF)
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National heatwave plans are aimed at reducing the avoidable human health consequences due to heatwaves, by providing warnings as well as improving communication between relevant stakeholders. The objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of key stakeholders within plans in Belgium and The Netherlands on their responsibilities, the partn...
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National heatwave plans are aimed at reducing the avoidable human health consequences due to heatwaves, by providing warnings to and improving communication between relevant stakeholders. The aim of this study was to assess the perceptions of key stakeholders within plans in Belgium and the Netherlands on their responsibilities, the partnerships, a...
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Objective: To determine whether pre-emptive oral cholera vaccination reduces disease severity and mortality in people who develop cholera during an outbreak. Methods: The study involved a retrospective analysis of demographic and clinical data from 41 cholera treatment facilities in South Sudan on patients who developed cholera disease between 23 A...
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A recent UNICEF report estimated that at least half a billion children worldwide inhabit communities at high risk of flooding, many of which are already affected by unacceptable levels of undernutrition, disease, or lack access to basic services. The vulnerability to floods might be high in rural areas as a result of social inequalities, poor housi...
Presentation
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A 40 minutes presentation on the major findings of my doctoral work
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Background: Women's malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, remains an important public health challenge in Ethiopia. Although various studies examined the levels and determinants of women's nutritional status, the influence of living close to an international border on women's nutrition has not been investigated. Yet, Ethiopian borders are regu...
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Background. Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries, yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts of extreme weather events under climate change, but...
Data
Dataset used in the study It includes 17 covariates, 2 outcomes, and flood exposure level, village and block names, and sampling probabilities required in the weighted analysis. Description of the data is included. Transformation of the variables are explained in the manuscript.
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Background: Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in Asia, yet epidemiological studies investigating this association are lacking. Methods: To investigate to what extent floods exacerbate poor nutritional status in children and identify most vulnerable groups, we conducted a population-based survey of childr...
Working Paper
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Background. Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries. Yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts of extreme weather events under climate change, but...
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Background. Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries. Yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts of extreme weather events under climate change, but...
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The ongoing Syrian conflict is one of the largest humanitarian crises of the 21st century so far. Debarati Guha-Sapir and colleagues analyse the impact of weapons on civilian deaths, with a focus on women and children.
Technical Report
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Assessing resilience of health care and social services in the face of natural disasters is of critical importance to the improvement (and monitoring) of resilience across European communities. However, adequate tools to assess resiliency of any of these systems are lacking. Here we focussed on hospital disaster resilience assessment and demonstrat...
Conference Paper
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Assessing resilience of health care and social services in the face of natural disasters is of critical importance to the improvement (and monitoring) of resilience across European communities. However, adequate tools to assess resiliency of any of these systems are lacking. Here we focussed on hospital disaster resilience assessment and demonstrat...