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Dr

Fisaha Tesfay

Sessional Academic

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development

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  • Sessional Academic
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development
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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

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Sessional Academic
    Deakin 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