Mr. Fasil Tessema

Fasil Tessema has MSc. in Community Health. Work experience: Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Jimma University. Current position: Head, Gilgel Gibe Field Research, Jimma University.

Research experience: Author and co-author of more than 54 peer reviewed articles in national and international journals.  Research areas of interest: Maternal and child health, Chronic and non-communicable diseases, Mental health, Food security and nutrition, population dynamics.

During the last two years served as consultant in Operational Research on Immunization and undertaken Evaluation of new born pilot project in Somali region, Ethiopia and Mid-term evaluation of Immunization Project in seven zones found in of five regions in Ethiopia.

In addition to delivering Biostatistics and Application software courses and advising post graduate students at Jimma University, conducted and facilitated repeated research methodology trainings to staffs and members of different organizations and longitudinal data management training using STATA for surveillance team members of HDSS site in Ethiopia.

Attended Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology:

1) Introduction to the Logistic and Poisson Models,

2) Survival Analysis Applied to Epidemiologic and Medical Data,

3) Applied Linear Regression,

4) Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Epidemiologic Studies, 

5) Topics in Infectious Diseases and 

6) Environmental Determinants of Infectious Diseases 7-25 July 2008, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, USA

Extracurricular activities: Life member of the Ethiopian Public health Association, Ethiopian Red Cross Society and Ethiopian Family Guidance association