Romesh Silva

Demographer and Statistician, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Romesh Silva, PhD is a demographer. He currently serves on the faculty of the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the use of demographic methods in the study of vulnerable populations. His work spans the measurement of violence against civilians in armed conflict, the development of information systems to monitor human rights violations in unsettled environments, and measurement of child and adult mortality in low-resource settings. He has led research projects in India, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Chad, Lebanon, and Bangladesh and contributed to projects in Palestine, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Somalia, and Liberia. He is currently the technical lead for a five country study that is developing rapid mortality measurement methods for use in low-resource settings that lack comprehensive vital registration systems.