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.