Third Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
3 November - 9 November 2023

Mr Awgichew Zemelak - Participant

Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data Science Training (APHREA-DST) (Co-PI)

PERSONAL INFORMATION Full Name: Awgichew Kifle Zemelak Date of Birth: January 13, 1985 Place of Birth Molale Gender: Male Address: Bole sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Contact: Tel: +251-911-53-1426 or +251-906-813229 Email: awgistat@gmail.com or awgichew.kifle@aau.edu.et Nationality: Ethiopian Marital Status: Married Experience: More than 9 years EDUCATION January 2013- PhD student, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Oct 2011-March 2014 MSc. in Biostatistics, University of Gondar, CNCS, Gondar, Ethiopia Sep 2006-July 2009 BSc. in Statistics, Hawassa University, CNCS, Hawassa, Ethiopia KEY QUALIFICATIONS Teaching Statistics and Biostatistics courses, Statistical software's like SPSS, Stata, R, SAS, MINITAB,supervision, data collection and Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation, participation in various curriculum workshops. MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS • Member of International Biometrics society (IBS) (2020 to present) • Member of Ethiopian Statistical Association (2013 to present) • Member of Ethiopian Public Health association(2018 to present) TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/ATTENDED: (Few of them) June 7-9, 2023 My SQL training given by Columbia University. April05, 2022 Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data science training, Nairobi, Kenya Dec 01-14, 2021 Advanced methods of analysis using large-scale survey data, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Feb 27-29, 2021 Participate Curriculum development workshop, Bisheftu, Ethiopia Apr 15-20, 2019 Certificate on CSPro software training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Feb 11-15, 2019 Certificate on International conference on Application of Mathematical and Statistical Modeling ten years of Mathematical and Statistical science, Hawassa, Ethiopia Mar 24-25, 2018 Attained on 27th Annual conference of Ethiopian Statistical Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dec 17-22, 2018 Certificate on R software training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Oct 01-02, 2018 Attained on National conference of Ethiopian Statistical Association, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Mar 25- 27, 2017 Attained on 26th Annual conference of Ethiopian Statistical Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Nov 2017 -Dec, 2017 Participate MSc degree curriculum preparation of Statistics department in Jigjiga University. Mar 25- 27, 2016 Attained on 1 st international conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, Haromaya, Ethiopia Mar 20- 22, 2016 Attained on 1st international Statistical conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Oct 24- 27, 2015 Certificate on First International conference on Mathematics and statistics Education, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Sep 08, 2015 Certificate of Higher Diploma program in Teachers Education (HDP), Jigjiga, Ethiopia. April 26- 27, 2014 Attained on 23rd Annual conference of Ethiopian Statistical Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Jun 10- 22, 2013 Certificate on International conference on food and Nutrition, Jigjiga, Ethiopia May 16-21, 2011 Certificate on Balanced Score Card and Team Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dec 4 -20, 2010 Participate BSC degree curriculum preparation of Statistics department in Jigjiga University. (Awgichew Kifle CV) Page 1 of 3 ......................CV April 2021 Sep 2010-Nov 2010 Certificate on Transformational Leadership Development and Coaching, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. EMPLOYMENT RECORDS/WORK EXPERIANCE I. FULL TIME May 2018-Present Addis Ababa University, School of public health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Position Held: Lecturer Key Responsibilities: Teaching Biostatistics courses and Engage in research work Jan 2014-Oct 2018 Jigjiga University, Department of Statistics, P. O. Box 1020, Jigjiga, Ethiopia Position Held: Lecturer Key Responsibilities: Teaching Statistics courses and carry out research work. Sep 2010-Oct 2011 Jigjiga University, Department of Statistics, P. O. Box 1020, Jigjiga, Ethiopia Position Held: Department Head Key Responsibilities: Run the day to day activities of the department, Coordinate, Execute & Monitor and evaluate staffs & students activities of the department. Feb 2011-Sep 2011 Jigjiga University, P. O. Box 1020, Jigjiga, Ethiopia Position Held: Head of Data Center of Jigjiga University Key Responsibilities: Prepare University Data in the Usable form, Execute and Monitor the university data. May 2009- Jan 2014 Jigjiga University, Department of Statistics, P. O. Box 1020, Jigjiga, Ethiopia Position Held: Instructor Key Responsibilities: Teaching Statistics Courses and carry out Research II. PART TIME May-up to now MOH, National Survey on Epi coverage project. Position Held: Core team member and data manger May-up to now CSA, National Survey on need assessment and module preparation on training need assessment of stakeholder. Position Held: Core team member and data manager De1-Feb2 2023 Compliance with cigarette smoking in Ethiopia project. Position Held: Data manger Feb 2- 17, 2017 World Food Program (WFP) Ethiopia; Urban HIV/AIDS nutrition and food security project Position Held: Data manger Key Responsibilities: Collect the data as per the questionnaire on Urban HIV/AIDS nutrition and food security for the End-term Evaluation. TRAINING DELIVERED (Detail) • Biostatistical analysis of epidemiology data training for senior AAU/CHS staffs. February 15-26, 2021 • SPSS software training for senior staffs of Saint Paulos Millennium Collage, April. 06-o7, 2021 • Training on Data management and Analysis for MERQ consultancy, Sep. 14-16, 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. • Training on Data Analysis using Stata software for Ethiopian Statistical Association members, Aug. 12-17, 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. • SPSS software training for senior staffs of Ministry of Urban development and Housing, Jan. 09-18, 2019 • Stata software training for senior staffs of Minster of Urban Development and Housing, Nov. 11-21, 2018 • SPSS software training for senior staffs of Meles Zenawi Leadership academy, Nov. 24-29, 2018 • Stata software training for Post graduate staffs of Jigjiga University, March 19-21, 2018 • Statistical data Analysis Using Stata software for Jigjiga University Research coordinators and Research Committee members, Jun 25- 30, 2018 • SPSS software training for Jigjiga University Female Academic Staffs, May 08-12, 2018 • SPSS and Stata software training for CNCS academic staffs of Jigjiga University, May 13-17, 2018 • SPSS software training for Graduating students of Jigjiga University, April 16-21, 2018 • Research Methodology & SPSS software training for JJU Graduating students, February 5-12, 2016 RESEARCH/CASE STUDIES/REPORTS (Detail)  Magnitude of Physical and Sexual Violence among Eritrean Women Refugee Living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the Year 2022  Knowledge and perceptions of COVID-19 among government employees in Ethiopia, 2020, Ethiopia (2021),  EthiopiaPatterns Of Essential Health Services Utilization And Routine Health Information Management During Covid-19 Pandemic at Primary Health Service Delivery Point Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (2021), Ethiopia (Awgichew Kifle CV) Page 2 of 3 ......................CV April 2021  Hospitalization, Recovery, Death, incubation period and Severity of COVID-19: A Systematic Review  The plight of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Predicting infections, recoveries, deaths and hospitalization requirements using combined initial values from Meta-analysis and locally generated estimates. • Simulation Study on Reliability Estimates of a Repairable System with Lethal and Non-Lethal Common Cause Shock Failures, 2019 , Ethiopia • Estimation of Availability Measures and Confidence interval for two unit system with common cause shock failure and human Errors, 2018, Ethiopia • Determinants of Survival of Renal Failure Patients Receiving Dialysis in Bethel Teaching General (BTG) Hospital, (2013) Ethiopia • Statistical Analysis of Income and Expenditure of Instructors in case of Hawassa Teachers Training College, BSc. Research, (2009), Ethiopia Ongoing projects: • Predictors of home delivery among women who receive antenatal care in Ethiopia. • Epidemiology of Pelvic Ring and Acetabular injuries, sacral dimorphisms, and management outcome. • Improving Healthcare Data Quality through Capstone Project in selected health facilities of Addis Ababa: An Implementation Research • Strengthen Performance Monitoring team (PMT) through the Quality Improvement Model in Addis Ababa: An Implementation Research. • Assessing the status and improving the quality of data, culture of clinical data use, and e-health towards digitization and quality of patient care in health facilities of Addis Ababa City administration. LANGUAGE SKILLS Speaking Listening Reading Writing Amharic: Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent English: Very good Very good Excellent Excellent OTHER SKILLS • Computer applications such as Microsoft offices word, excel, PowerPoint, etc • Statistical software applications such as SPSS, Stata, MINITAB, R, SAS,Epinfo, CSPro etc REFERENCES: Prof. Alemayehu Worku, Professor at Addis Ababa University, School of public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Phone: +251 (0) 911 405652 Email: alemayehuwy@yahoo.com Dr. Essey Kebede, Academic Vice President of Bahir Dar University and Vice President of ESA Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Phone: +251 (0) 923 29 73 33 or +251 (0) 932 80 80 02 Email: essey@bdu.edu.et or kebedeessey@yahoo.com Dr. Girma Taye, Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, School of public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Phone: +251 (0) 911 76 99 26 Email: girmataye2009@gmail.com