Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Juan Pablo Sarmiento is Medical Doctor and Surgeon graduated from the Rosario University (Colombia), with studies in Disaster Management at Oxford (Great Britain), High Level Public Administration from the Colombian Superior School of Public Administration; a Master’s degree in Medical Education from the University of Sabana (Colombia); a residence in Nutrition at Tufts University (United States) and a Master’s degree in Project Administration from the University for International Cooperation (Costa Rica).
Dr. Sarmiento has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Javeriana University, Colombian Red Cross, Colombian Ministry of Health, Colombian Central Military Hospital and the Colombia’s Civil Defense.
He has 30 years of professional and research experience, publications in the fields of health, health education, risks and disaster management in Latin America and the Caribbean. His work encompasses a wide range of activities, including the evaluation of health systems, institutional capacity building on disaster risk reduction and disaster management, as well as responding to emergencies and disasters, conducting damage assessment and needs analyses, and designing post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction programs.
Currently he is a Professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, located at Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Sarmiento is also Director of The Paul C. Bell Risk Management Program, and Co-Director of The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Program at the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, College of Arts & Sciences.
Related Resources from Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Accountability, and the Role of the Media: Concepts, Cases, and Conclusions
With Richard Stuart Olson and Gabriela Hoberman
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, 2011
FIU Disaster Risk Reduction Program
