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DrTeketo Tegegne

Casual Research Fellow

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

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  • Casual Research Fellow
    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • +61 3 924 46704 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr Teketo Kassaw Tegegne is a Research Fellow in Epidemiology at Deakin University's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition. With a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics from the University of Newcastle, he has expertise in health data science, epidemiology, and spatial modelling. His research spans digital health, public health, preventive intervention evaluation, and spatial epidemiology, including innovative projects such as a machine-learning study analysing wearable camera data to identify self-management behaviuors in heart failure patients, and an NHMRC-funded Smart Home system for heart failure care. His work with the UK Biobank also addresses risk behaviuors on a large scale.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Casual Research Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia14 Sep 2016 - 25 Nov 2020
  • Master of Public Health
    Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia7 Jul 2013
  • Bachelor of Science
    Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia5 Jul 2010

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Epidemiology
  • Health services and systems
  • Public health
  • Health promotion
  • Public health nutrition

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences