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Hire Mulubirhan Assefa A.
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Epidemiologist and expert in designing and analysing epidemiological studies

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting
Research Market Research, Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Processing
Work Experience

Early Stage Researcher(Research Fellow)

University of Verona

October 2018 - Present

Assistant Professor

Mekelle University College of Health Sciences

October 2017 - Present

Visiting Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 2020 - August 2020

Academic Lecturer

Mekelle University College of Health Sciences

December 2015 - October 2017

Researcher

VSF SUISSE-Ethiopia

June 2015 - December 2016

Teaching, Research, Community Service with a rank of graduate assistant, assistant lecturer, abd lecturer

Jigjiga University

September 2009 - December 2015

Education

PhD (Diagnostic and Public Health)

University of Verona

October 2018 - Present

32nd Residential Summer Course in Epidemiology, Certificate

European Educational Programme in Epidemiology

June 2019 - July 2019

MPH in Epidemiology (Preventive Medicine)

Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences

September 2011 - July 2013

BSc (Environmental Health Science)

Haramaya University College of Health Sciences

October 2006 - July 2009

Certifications
  • Certificate in GIS for Global Health

    Royal Tropical Institute

    August 2021 - Present

  • Certificate of Continuing Medical Education accredited by the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology

    European Respiratory Society

    July 2020 - Present

  • Certificate in Epidemiological Methods and Statistical Models

    European Educational Programme in Epidemiology

    July 2019 - Present

  • Certificate in Scientific Writing and Mentorship

    Ethiopia FMoH Field Epidemiology Training Program

    February 2017 - Present

  • Certificate in Statistical Analysis Method for Nutrition Research

    The Nutrition Society

    October 2016 - Present

  • Certificate in Biomedical Research Ethics

    Armauer Hansen Research Institute and Jigjiga University, Ethiopia

    November 2014 - Present

  • Certificate in Leadership and Communication

    Ethiopian Public Health Association, Ethiopia

    January 2014 - Present

  • Certificate in Health Research Methodology and Ethics Training

    Ethiopian Public Health Association, Ethiopia

    June 2011 - Present

Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Taffere, G.R., Bonsa, M., Assefa, M.(2020). Magnitude of occupational exposure to noise, heat and associated factors among sugarcane factory workers in Ethiopia, 2017 . Journal of Public Health (Germany). 28. (5). p. 517-523.
Kissanet Tesfay and Mulubirhan Assefa and Dawit Zenebe and Mekonnen Gebremicael and Getahun Kebede and Hayelom Gebrekirstos(2019). Road traffic injured patients with severe GCS and organ injury had a poor prognosis: a retrospective cohort study . BMC Public Health. 19. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Mitiku Bonsa and Getachew Redae Taffere and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayehu(2019). Magnitude of occupational exposure to bagasse dust and associated factors among Metehara Sugarcane Factory workers, east Shoa, Ethiopia . Journal of Public Health. 27. (2). p. 203--210. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Tesfay, K., Assefa, M., Zenebe, D., Gebremicael, M., Kebede, G., Gebrekirstos, H.(2019). Road traffic injured patients with severe GCS and organ injury had a poor prognosis: A retrospective cohort study . BMC Public Health. 19. (1).
The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies From 1990 to 2015 at the Global, Regional, and National Level @article{2017, doi = {10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3055}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1001%2Fjamaoncol.2017.3055}, year = 2017, month = {dec}, publisher = {American Medical Association ({AMA})}, volume = {3}, number = {12}, pages = {1683}, author = {and Tomi Akinyemiju and Semaw Abera and Muktar Ahmed and Noore Alam and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu and Christine Allen and Rajaa Al-Raddadi and Nelson Alvis-Guzman and Yaw Amoako and Al Artaman and Tadesse Awoke Ayele and Aleksandra Barac and Isabela Bensenor and Adugnaw Berhane and Zulfiqar Bhutta and Jacqueline Castillo-Rivas and Abdulaal Chitheer and Jee-Young Choi and Benjamin Cowie and Lalit Dandona and Rakhi Dandona and Subhojit Dey and Daniel Dicker and Huyen Phuc and Donatus U. Ekwueme and Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Florian Fischer and Thomas Fürst and Jamie Hancock and Simon I. Hay and Peter Hotez and Sun Ha Jee and Amir Kasaeian and Yousef Khader and Young-Ho Khang and G Anil Kumar and Michael Kutz and Heidi Larson and Alan Lopez and Raimundas Lunevicius and Reza Malekzadeh and Colm McAlinden and Toni Meier and Walter Mendoza and Ali Mokdad and Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Gabriele Nagel and Quyen Nguyen and Grant Nguyen and Felix Ogbo and George Patton and David M. Pereira and Farshad Pourmalek and Mostafa Qorbani and Amir Radfar and Gholamreza Roshandel and Joshua A Salomon and Juan Sanabria and Benn Sartorius and Maheswar Satpathy and Monika Sawhney and Sadaf Sepanlou and Katya Shackelford and Hirbo Shore and Jiandong Sun and Desalegn Tadese Mengistu and Roman Top{\'{o}}r-Madry and Bach Tran and Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja and Vasiliy Vlassov and Stein Emil Vollset and Theo Vos and Tolassa Wakayo and Elisabete Weiderpass and Andrea Werdecker and Naohiro Yonemoto and Mustafa Younis and Chuanhua Yu and Zoubida Zaidi and Liguo Zhu and Christopher J. L. Murray and Mohsen Naghavi and Christina Fitzmaurice}, title = {The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies From 1990 to 2015 at the Global, Regional, and National Level}, journal = {{JAMA} Oncology}} . JAMA Oncology.
Christopher Troeger and Mohammad Forouzanfar and Puja C Rao and Ibrahim Khalil and Alexandria Brown and Scott Swartz and Nancy Fullman and Jonathan Mosser and Robert L Thompson and Robert C Reiner and Amanuel Abajobir and Noore Alam and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu and Azmeraw T Amare and Carl Abelardo Antonio and Hamid Asayesh and Euripide Avokpaho and Aleksandra Barac and Muktar A Beshir and Dube Jara Boneya and Michael Brauer and Lalit Dandona and Rakhi Dandona and Joseph R A Fitchett and Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot and Gessessew Buggsa Hailu and Peter J Hotez and Amir Kasaeian and Tawfik Khoja and Niranjan Kissoon and Luke Knibbs and G Anil Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Rai and Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek and Muktar S K Mohammed and Katie Nielson and Eyal Oren and Abdalla Osman and George Patton and Mostafa Qorbani and Hirbo Shore Roba and Benn Sartorius and Miloje Savic and Mika Shigematsu and Bryan Sykes and Soumya Swaminathan and Roman Topor-Madry and Kingsley Ukwaja and Andrea Werdecker and Naohiro Yonemoto and Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Stephen S Lim and Mohsen Naghavi and Theo Vos and Simon I Hay and Christopher J L Murray and Ali H Mokdad(2017). Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory tract infections in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 . The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17. (11). p. 1133--1161. Elsevier {BV}
Christopher Troeger and Mohammad Forouzanfar and Puja C Rao and Ibrahim Khalil and Alexandria Brown and Robert C Reiner and Nancy Fullman and Robert L Thompson and Amanuel Abajobir and Muktar Ahmed and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu and Nelson Alvis-Guzman and Azmeraw T Amare and Carl Abelardo Antonio and Hamid Asayesh and Euripide Avokpaho and Ashish Awasthi and Umar Bacha and Aleksandra Barac and Balem Demtsu Betsue and Addisu Shunu Beyene and Dube Jara Boneya and Deborah Carvalho Malta and Lalit Dandona and Rakhi Dandona and Manisha Dubey and Babak Eshrati and Joseph R A Fitchett and Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot and Gessessew Buggsa Hailu and Masako Horino and Peter J Hotez and Tariku Jibat and Jost B Jonas and Amir Kasaeian and Niranjan Kissoon and Karen Kotloff and Ai Koyanagi and G Anil Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Rai and Aparna Lal and Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek and Mubarek Abera Mengistie and Christine Moe and George Patton and James A Platts-Mills and Mostafa Qorbani and Usha Ram and Hirbo Shore Roba and Juan Sanabria and Benn Sartorius and Monika Sawhney and Mika Shigematsu and Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy and Soumya Swaminathan and Bemnet Amare Tedla and Roman Topor-Madry Jagiellonian and Kingsley Ukwaja and Andrea Werdecker and Marc-Alain Widdowson and Naohiro Yonemoto and Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Stephen S Lim and Mohsen Naghavi and Theo Vos and Simon I Hay and Christopher J L Murray and Ali H Mokdad(2017). Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 . The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17. (9). p. 909--948. Elsevier {BV}
Child and Adolescent Health From 1990 to 2015 @article{2017, doi = {10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.0250}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1001%2Fjamapediatrics.2017.0250}, year = 2017, month = {jun}, publisher = {American Medical Association ({AMA})}, volume = {171}, number = {6}, pages = {573}, author = {and Nicholas Kassebaum and Hmwe Hmwe Kyu and Leo Zoeckler and Helen Elizabeth Olsen and Katie Thomas and Christine Pinho and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Lalit Dandona and Alize Ferrari and Tsegaye Tewelde Ghiwot and Simon I. Hay and Yohannes Kinfu and Xiaofeng Liang and Alan Lopez and Deborah Carvalho Malta and Ali H. Mokdad and Mohsen Naghavi and George C. Patton and Joshua Salomon and Benn Sartorius and Roman Topor-Madry and Stein Emil Vollset and Andrea Werdecker and Harvey A. Whiteford and Kalkidan Hasen Abate and Kaja Abbas and Solomon Abrha Damtew and Muktar Beshir Ahmed and Nadia Akseer and Rajaa Al-Raddadi and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu and Khalid Altirkawi and Amanuel Alemu Abajobir and Azmeraw T. Amare and Carl A. T. Antonio and Johan Arnlov and Al Artaman and Hamid Asayesh and Euripide Frinel G. Arthur Avokpaho and Ashish Awasthi and Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla and Umar Bacha and Balem Demtsu Betsu and Aleksandra Barac and Till Winfried Bärnighausen and Estifanos Baye and Neeraj Bedi and Isabela M. Bensenor and Adugnaw Berhane and Eduardo Bernabe and Oscar Alberto Bernal and Addisu Shunu Beyene and Sibhatu Biadgilign and Boris Bikbov and Cheryl Anne Boyce and Alexandra Brazinova and Gessessew Bugssa Hailu and Austin Carter and Carlos A. Casta{\~{n}}eda-Orjuela and Ferr{\'{a}}n Catal{\'{a}}-L{\'{o}}pez and Fiona J. Charlson and Abdulaal A. Chitheer and Jee-Young Jasmine Choi and Liliana G. Ciobanu and John Crump and Rakhi Dandona and Robert P. Dellavalle and Amare Deribew and Gabrielle deVeber and Daniel Dicker and Eric L. Ding and Manisha Dubey and Amanuel Yesuf Endries and Holly E. Erskine and Emerito Jose Aquino Faraon and Andre Faro and Farshad Farzadfar and Joao C. Fernandes and Daniel Obadare Fijabi and Christina Fitzmaurice and Thomas D. Fleming and Luisa Sorio Flor and Kyle J. Foreman and Richard C. Franklin and Maya S. Fraser and Joseph J. Frostad and Nancy Fullman and Gebremedhin Berhe Gebregergs and Alemseged Aregay Gebru and Johanna M. Geleijnse and Katherine B. Gibney and Mahari Gidey Yihdego and Ibrahim Abdelmageem Mohamed Ginawi and Melkamu Dedefo Gishu and Tessema Assefa Gizachew and Elizabeth Glaser and Audra L. Gold and Ellen Goldberg and Philimon Gona and Atsushi Goto and Harish Chander Gugnani and Guohong Jiang and Rajeev Gupta and Fisaha Haile Tesfay and Graeme J. Hankey and Rasmus Havmoeller and Martha Hijar and Masako Horino and H. Dean Hosgood and Guoqing Hu and Kathryn H. Jacobsen and Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic and Sudha P. Jayaraman and Vivekanand Jha and Tariku Jibat and Catherine O. Johnson and Jost Jonas and Amir Kasaeian and Norito Kawakami and Peter N. Keiyoro and Ibrahim Khalil and Young-Ho Khang and Jagdish Khubchandani and Aliasghar A. Ahmad Kiadaliri and Christian Kieling and Daniel Kim and Niranjan Kissoon and Luke D. Knibbs and Ai Koyanagi and Kristopher J. Krohn and Barthelemy Kuate Defo and Burcu Kucuk Bicer and Rachel Kulikoff and G. Anil Kumar and Dharmesh Kumar Lal and Hilton Y. Lam and Heidi J. Larson and Anders Larsson and Dennis Odai Laryea and Janni Leung and Stephen S. Lim and Loon-Tzian Lo and Warren D. Lo and Katharine J. Looker and Paulo A. Lotufo and Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek and Reza Malekzadeh and Desalegn Markos Shifti and Mohsen Mazidi and Peter A. Meaney and Kidanu Gebremariam Meles and Peter Memiah and Walter Mendoza and Mubarek Abera Mengistie and Gebremichael Welday Mengistu and George A. Mensah and Ted R. Miller and Charles Mock and Alireza Mohammadi and Shafiu Mohammed and Lorenzo Monasta and Ulrich Mueller and Chie Nagata and Aliya Naheed and Grant Nguyen and Quyen Le Nguyen and Elaine Nsoesie and In-Hwan Oh and Anselm Okoro and Jacob Olusegun Olusanya and Bolajoko O. Olusanya and Alberto Ortiz and Deepak Paudel and David M. Pereira and Norberto Perico and Max Petzold and Michael Robert Phillips and Guilherme V. Polanczyk and Farshad Pourmalek and Mostafa Qorbani and Anwar Rafay and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar and Mahfuzar Rahman and Rajesh Kumar Rai and Usha Ram and Zane Rankin and Giuseppe Remuzzi and Andre M. N. Renzaho and Hirbo Shore Roba and David Rojas-Rueda and Luca Ronfani and Rajesh Sagar and Juan Ramon Sanabria and Muktar Sano Kedir Mohammed and Itamar S. Santos and Maheswar Satpathy and Monika Sawhney and Ben Schöttker and David C. Schwebel and James G. Scott and Sadaf G. Sepanlou and Amira Shaheen and Masood Ali Shaikh and June She and Rahman Shiri and Ivy Shiue and Inga Dora Sigfusdottir and Jasvinder Singh and Naris Silpakit and Alison Smith and Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy and Jeffrey D. Stanaway and Dan J. Stein and Caitlyn Steiner and Muawiyyah Babale Sufiyan and Soumya Swaminathan and Rafael Tabar{\'{e}}s-Seisdedos and Karen M. Tabb and Fentaw Tadese and Mohammad Tavakkoli and Bineyam Taye and Stephanie Teeple and Teketo Kassaw Tegegne and Girma Temam Shifa and Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi and Bernadette Thomas and Alan J. Thomson and Ruoyan Tobe-Gai and Marcello Tonelli and Bach Xuan Tran and Christopher Troeger and Kingsley N. Ukwaja and Olalekan Uthman and Tommi Vasankari and Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian and Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov and Elisabete Weiderpass and Robert Weintraub and Solomon Weldemariam Gebrehiwot and Ronny Westerman and Hywel C. Williams and Charles D. A. Wolfe and Rachel Woodbrook and Yuichiro Yano and Naohiro Yonemoto and Seok-Jun Yoon and Mustafa Z. Younis and Chuanhua Yu and Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Elias Asfaw Zegeye and Liesl Joanna Zuhlke and Christopher J. L. Murray and Theo Vos}, title = {Child and Adolescent Health From 1990 to 2015}, journal = {{JAMA} Pediatrics}} . JAMA Pediatrics.
Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015 @article{2017, doi = {10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5688}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1001%2Fjamaoncol.2016.5688}, year = 2017, month = {apr}, publisher = {American Medical Association ({AMA})}, volume = {3}, number = {4}, pages = {524}, author = {and Christina Fitzmaurice and Christine Allen and Ryan M. Barber and Lars Barregard and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Hermann Brenner and Daniel J. Dicker and Odgerel Chimed-Orchir and Rakhi Dandona and Lalit Dandona and Tom Fleming and Mohammad H. Forouzanfar and Jamie Hancock and Roderick J. Hay and Rachel Hunter-Merrill and Chantal Huynh and H. Dean Hosgood and Catherine O. Johnson and Jost B. Jonas and Jagdish Khubchandani and G. Anil Kumar and Michael Kutz and Qing Lan and Heidi J. Larson and Xiaofeng Liang and Stephen S. Lim and Alan D. Lopez and Michael F. MacIntyre and Laurie Marczak and Neal Marquez and Ali H. Mokdad and Christine Pinho and Farshad Pourmalek and Joshua A. Salomon and Juan Ramon Sanabria and Logan Sandar and Benn Sartorius and Stephen M. Schwartz and Katya A. Shackelford and Kenji Shibuya and Jeff Stanaway and Caitlyn Steiner and Jiandong Sun and Ken Takahashi and Stein Emil Vollset and Theo Vos and Joseph A. Wagner and Haidong Wang and Ronny Westerman and Hajo Zeeb and Leo Zoeckler and Foad Abd-Allah and Muktar Beshir Ahmed and Samer Alabed and Noore K. Alam and Saleh Fahed Aldhahri and Girma Alem and Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu and Raghib Ali and Rajaa Al-Raddadi and Azmeraw Amare and Yaw Amoako and Al Artaman and Hamid Asayesh and Niguse Atnafu and Ashish Awasthi and Huda Ba Saleem and Aleksandra Barac and Neeraj Bedi and Isabela Bensenor and Adugnaw Berhane and Eduardo Bernab{\'{e}} and Balem Betsu and Agnes Binagwaho and Dube Boneya and Ismael Campos-Nonato and Carlos Casta{\~{n}}eda-Orjuela and Ferr{\'{a}}n Catal{\'{a}}-L{\'{o}}pez and Peggy Chiang and Chioma Chibueze and Abdulaal Chitheer and Jee-Young Choi and Benjamin Cowie and Solomon Damtew and Jos{\'{e}} das Neves and Suhojit Dey and Samath Dharmaratne and Preet Dhillon and Eric Ding and Tim Driscoll and Donatus Ekwueme and Aman Yesuf Endries and Maryam Farvid and Farshad Farzadfar and Joao Fernandes and Florian Fischer and Tsegaye Tewelde G/hiwot and Alemseged Gebru and Sameer Gopalani and Alemayehu Hailu and Masako Horino and Nobuyuki Horita and Abdullatif Husseini and Inge Huybrechts and Manami Inoue and Farhad Islami and Mihajlo Jakovljevic and Spencer James and Mehdi Javanbakht and Sun Ha Jee and Amir Kasaeian and Muktar Sano Kedir and Yousef S. Khader and Young-Ho Khang and Daniel Kim and James Leigh and Shai Linn and Raimundas Lunevicius and Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek and Reza Malekzadeh and Deborah Carvalho Malta and Wagner Marcenes and Desalegn Markos and Yohannes A. Melaku and Kidanu G Meles and Walter Mendoza and Desalegn Tadese Mengiste and Tuomo J. Meretoja and Ted R. Miller and Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad and Alireza Mohammadi and Shafiu Mohammed and Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Gabriele Nagel and Devina Nand and Quyen Le Nguyen and Sandra Nolte and Felix A. Ogbo and Kelechi E. Oladimeji and Eyal Oren and Mahesh Pa and Eun-Kee Park and David M Pereira and Dietrich Plass and Mostafa Qorbani and Amir Radfar and Anwar Rafay and Mahfuzar Rahman and Saleem M. Rana and Kjetil S{\o}reide and Maheswar Satpathy and Monika Sawhney and Sadaf G. Sepanlou and Masood Ali Shaikh and Jun She and Ivy Shiue and Hirbo Roba Shore and Mark G. Shrime and Samuel So and Samir Soneji and Vasiliki Stathopoulou and Konstantinos Stroumpoulis and Muawiyyah Babale Sufiyan and Bryan L. Sykes and Rafael Tabar{\'{e}}s-Seisdedos and Fentaw Tadese and Bemnet Amare Tedla and Gizachew Assefa Tessema and J. S. Thakur and Bach Xuan Tran and Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja and Benjamin S. Chudi Uzochukwu and Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov and Elisabete Weiderpass and Mamo Wubshet Terefe and Henock Gebremedhin Yebyo and Hassen Hamid Yimam and Naohiro Yonemoto and Mustafa Z. Younis and Chuanhua Yu and Zoubida Zaidi and Maysaa El Sayed Zaki and Zerihun Menlkalew Zenebe and Christopher J. L. Murray and Mohsen Naghavi}, title = {Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015}, journal = {{JAMA} Oncology}} . JAMA Oncology.
Mulubirhan Assefa and Abera Kumie(2014). Assessment of factors influencing hygiene behaviour among school children in Mereb-Leke District, Northern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study . BMC Public Health. 14. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
RESEARCH TECHNIQUE
Lensse Gobu, Mulubirhan Assefa, Yoseph Legesse, and Namukolo Covic. Pastoral Community Platforms as Channels for Behavioral Change for Nutrition. RESEARCH BRIEF 08 |FEBRUARY 2017.