Technical Advisory Group
The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is a group of eminent experts in epidemiology, emergency nutrition, nutritional security, early warning systems, and demography who created the SMART methodology in collaboration with partners from the CDC, universities, United Nations, and various NGOs. The TAG is responsible for the continuous enhancement of SMART based on field experiences.
Meet the experts of Tag:
Michael Golden, MD PhD
Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group
Michael studied physiology and medicine to become a gastroenterologist by the early 1970s. His clinical practice led him to switch to nutrition and paediatrics. He worked at, and later directed, Waterloo's old unit in Jamaica for 17 years, researching all aspects of malnutrition. Michael returned to the UK in 1991 and has since been working as a consultant for various NGOs and UN agencies involved in malnutrition, as well as teaching at Aberdeen University in Scotland.
E. Grellety, MSc MPH PhD
co-Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group
Emmanuel Grellety is the Senior Epidemiologist for the Emergency Desk of Médecins Sans Frontières France since 2019. He has more than 20 years' experience in humanitarian emergencies in various positions, working mainly in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia with many NGOs and UN agencies, conducting operational programme delivery and research in difficult and insecure settings. He joined Epicentre in 2008 and his main areas of expertise are field epidemiology, quantitative public health measurement and disease control among crisis-affected population.
Oleg Bilukha, MD PhD
Sampling methods in SMART
Dr. Oleg Bilukha is Associate Director of Science with the Emergency Response and Recovery Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he works since 2000. He obtained his MD from Ukraine, and his PhD in Nutrition (with minors in Epidemiology and Consumer Economics) from Cornell University, USA. Oleg has served as a consultant and temporary advisor to the WHO, UNHCR, WFP, and UNICEF on multiple assignments all over the globe. His advance expertize includes international nutrition, statistics, epidemiology, surveys and surveillance, and war-related injury among other topics. He published over 40 peer reviewed papers and reviewed for ~20 scientific journals including Lancet, JAMA and BMJ. In the recent years Oleg was asked by UN partners to lead expert work on assessing the quality of anthropometry survey data and/or represent nutrition on emergency ad hoc expert panels in high-profile emergencies such as Somalia famine, Syria refugee crisis and most recently potential declaration of famine in South Sudan. He is a world expert on nutrition assessment methods in emergencies and post-emergencies and regularly advises senior nutrition technical staff of major international NGOs and UN agencies active in nutrition sector.
Juergen Erhardt, PhD
ENA software development
Juergen has a PhD in human nutrition from Hohenheim University, Germany. Since 2003 he has worked on improving laboratory methods for measuring the micronutrient status and developing nutrition software at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta.