Vitor Pessoa Colombo
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BP 3228 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
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Fields of expertise
- Informal settlements
- Urban health
- Southern urbanism
- Mapping & household surveys
- Spatial Analysis / Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Latin America
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- International collaboration
Biography
Vitor is an architect by training who grew up in Brazil before moving to Switzerland. His personal experience fostered a particular interest in urban planning challenges raised by socio-spatial segregation and inequitable urbanization.His research focuses on habitat and health issues resulting from rapid and largely "informal" urban growth in the Global South, while reflecting on the role of geographic information as a tool for both spatial transformation and social development. In this sense, his work is based on geographic information systems (GIS), including participatory mapping based on mobile data collection tools. Throughout his work, Vitor has developed transdisciplinary partnerships with various actors in Switzerland, Brazil, Kenya, and Côte d'Ivoire.
Education
Docteur ès Sciences (PhD)
Urban planning and public health
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2019-2023
Master of Science
Architecture
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
2011-2013
Bachelor of Science
Architecture
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2006-2009
Publications
Selected publications
Pessoa Colombo, V., Chenal, J., Orina, F., Meme, H., Koffi, J.A.A., Koné B., Utzinger J. Infectious Diseases of Poverty |
Environmental determinants of access to shared sanitation in informal settlements: a cross-sectional study in Abidjan and Nairobi |
Pessoa Colombo, V., Chenal, J., Koné B., Koffi, J.A.A., Utzinger J. Journal of Urban Health |
Spatial Distributions of Diarrheal Cases in Relation to Housing Conditions in Informal Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Study in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire |
Santos, A.P., Pessoa Colombo, V., Heider, K., Rodriguez-Lopez, J.M. Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America. The Latin American Studies Book Series. |
Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: A Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI |