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Ethiopia

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Public Health & Nutrition Advisor: Expert in Data-Driven Program Design, MEAL | Strategic Proposals | Technical Op

Profile Summary

Seasoned Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor and Program Leader with over a decade of progressive experience designing, securing funding for, and managing high-impact health and nutrition programs in complex humanitarian and low-resource settings, primarily across Ethiopia. I specialize in translating strategic vision into operational excellence, strengthening health systems, improving service delivery, and building resilient, community-centered responses. I provide technical and program leadership for organizations seeking to strengthen their health and nutrition portfolios from winning competitive donor funding (USAID/BHA, ECHO, UNICEF, and others) and designing evidence-based MNCH, CMAM, PHC, and PHEM programs, to establishing robust MEAL and data analytics systems and leading operational and implementation research that informs adaptive management and global best practice.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Pandemic Preparedness
• ☆ Emergency Preparedness
• ☆ Food Security
• ☆ Global Health

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study

Consulting Healthcare Consulting

Work Experience

Health and Nutrition Advisor

Save the Children

January 2024 - Present

Project Lead, MERIAM 2.0 Multi-Country Research Project

Action Against Hunger-USA

June 2023 - January 2024

Senior Program Manager, Field Office Manager

Save the Children International

June 2022 - June 2023

Project Manager-Nutrition &Health, Senior Coordinator

Save the Children International

July 2019 - June 2022

Education

Advanced Postgraduate Diploma, Public Health Research (Public Health)

James Lind Institute

October 2024 - September 2025

MSc Human Nutrition (Nutrition and Dietetics )

Jimma University

September 2017 - July 2019

BSc in Generic Nursing

Madda Walabu University

September 2008 - July 2010

Certifications

• Applying Behavioral Science to Change Kids’ Lives Course Certificate

  Save the Children International

  https://credential.certifyme.online/verify/916e7e8721436

  January 2025 - Present

• IT Essentials

  Cisco Networking Academy

  November 2018 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Getachew Arage, Tefera Belachew, Kemal Hajmahmud, Mubarek Abera, Fedilu Abdulhay, Misra Abdulahi, Kalkidan Hassen Abate (2021). Impact of early life famine exposure on adulthood anthropometry among survivors of the 1983–1985 Ethiopian Great famine: a historical cohort study . BMC Public Health.