Dr
Fisaha TesfayProfile page
Sessional Academic
Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development
Orcid identifier0000-0003-0399-1711
- Sessional AcademicFaculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development
BIO
Fisaha is an Epidemiologist and Public Health researcher with a special focus
on healthcare workers wellbeing, noncommunicable diseases, HIV and nutrition
and Covid_19. Fisaha also holds an academic position as an associate Lecturer
at Flinders University from May 2020 to December 2022 at the College of
Medicine and Public Health.
Fisaha has led research projects during his PhD and postdoctoral fellowship on
HIV and nutrition and none communicable diseases in Ethiopia respectively. He
is an experienced early career researcher with a strong track record and with
47 publications in peer reviewed journal. Fisaha also contributes to various
newspapers such as The Conversation on contemporary issues to non-academic
audience.
His research interests include healthcare workers wellbeing, noncommunicable
diseases, HIV and nutrition, and volunteer community health workers, Covid_19,
mental health and health system performance. He has also a particular interest
on the social determinants of health and health equity. His research settings
include Ethiopia, Australia, sub-Saharan Africa and global data sets such as
the Global Burden of Diseases.
He is interested in studies with mixed methodologies (quantitative and
qualitative approaches). He has substantial experience in designing, managing
and implementing quantitative and qualitative research projects such as
writing proposal, managing a research team (research leadership), recruitment
of study participants using various methods, collecting, synthesizing and
analyzing data, and facilitate the translation of research findings.
For his quantitative projects, he has employed various epidemiological study
designs such as: cross-sectional, case control, and cohort. In terms of
analysis techniques, he has employed descriptive analyses, ANOVA, linear
regression, logistic regression (binary, multinomial and complex), Cox
regression, meta-analysis using SPSS, STATA, EPI-info and EpiData.
For qualitative research projects, he has used semi-structured, in-depth
interviews and nominal group techniques; and analysed using thematic framework
analyses and content analysis, using NVivo software.
Fisaha received several honours, awards and grants including Dean's Post-
Doctoral Research Fellowship (2020-2022, Flinders University Conference Travel
Scholarship (2018), Best session presenter award (2018), Australian Government
Research Training program (2015-2019), 2020 Small grant awards from Royal
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2020) and many others.
Qualifications
Title: Post Doctoral Fellowship:
Institution: Deakin University
Year: 2020-2022
Title: PhD in Public Health
Institution: Flinders University
Year: 2019
Title: Gneral Masters of Public Health
Institution: Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Year: 2011
Title: BSc in Public Health
Institution: Jimma University
Year: 2007
on healthcare workers wellbeing, noncommunicable diseases, HIV and nutrition
and Covid_19. Fisaha also holds an academic position as an associate Lecturer
at Flinders University from May 2020 to December 2022 at the College of
Medicine and Public Health.
Fisaha has led research projects during his PhD and postdoctoral fellowship on
HIV and nutrition and none communicable diseases in Ethiopia respectively. He
is an experienced early career researcher with a strong track record and with
47 publications in peer reviewed journal. Fisaha also contributes to various
newspapers such as The Conversation on contemporary issues to non-academic
audience.
His research interests include healthcare workers wellbeing, noncommunicable
diseases, HIV and nutrition, and volunteer community health workers, Covid_19,
mental health and health system performance. He has also a particular interest
on the social determinants of health and health equity. His research settings
include Ethiopia, Australia, sub-Saharan Africa and global data sets such as
the Global Burden of Diseases.
He is interested in studies with mixed methodologies (quantitative and
qualitative approaches). He has substantial experience in designing, managing
and implementing quantitative and qualitative research projects such as
writing proposal, managing a research team (research leadership), recruitment
of study participants using various methods, collecting, synthesizing and
analyzing data, and facilitate the translation of research findings.
For his quantitative projects, he has employed various epidemiological study
designs such as: cross-sectional, case control, and cohort. In terms of
analysis techniques, he has employed descriptive analyses, ANOVA, linear
regression, logistic regression (binary, multinomial and complex), Cox
regression, meta-analysis using SPSS, STATA, EPI-info and EpiData.
For qualitative research projects, he has used semi-structured, in-depth
interviews and nominal group techniques; and analysed using thematic framework
analyses and content analysis, using NVivo software.
Fisaha received several honours, awards and grants including Dean's Post-
Doctoral Research Fellowship (2020-2022, Flinders University Conference Travel
Scholarship (2018), Best session presenter award (2018), Australian Government
Research Training program (2015-2019), 2020 Small grant awards from Royal
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2020) and many others.
Qualifications
Title: Post Doctoral Fellowship:
Institution: Deakin University
Year: 2020-2022
Title: PhD in Public Health
Institution: Flinders University
Year: 2019
Title: Gneral Masters of Public Health
Institution: Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Year: 2011
Title: BSc in Public Health
Institution: Jimma University
Year: 2007
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Sessional AcademicDeakin University, School of Health and Social Development
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
- Epidemiology
- Health services and systems
- Clinical sciences
- Public health
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Health
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE
- School of Health and Social Development