Excited to announce the launch of our VLIR-UOS sponsored International Training Program Prevention and Control of #NCDs and #mentalhealth in Ethiopia, spearheaded by Addis Ababa University Ministry of Health ETHIOPIA UAntwerpen Belgium in Addis Ababa Adamu Addissie Lense Yadete selamawit Hirpa NCD Epidemiology Research Working Group (NEpiRWG)

Celebrating International Women's Day 2024, under the theme of 'Investing in women: Accelerate progress'. I am very thankful for #Women Health Research Working Group @AAU,CHS for recognizing my achievement, the completion of my PhD studies.

በሕብረተሰብ ጤና ት/ቤት የሚገኙ 12 መምህራን ባለፉት 4 እና 5 አመታት የPhD ትምርህታቸውን በማጠናቀቃቸው የተዘጋጀ የእውቅና እና የምስጋና ፕሮግራም ።
Addis Ababa University School of Public Health
Sefere Selam Campus
09/11/2023
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I am thrilled to have attended my wife's Selam successful PhD defense. A well deserved terminal degree after years of hard work, dedication & perseverance. Many congratulations on this hard earned academic achievement Dr. Selamawit Hirpa.

#Polio #Dissemination Workshop on May 30,2023 @AAU SPH @JHUSPH Lessons Learned from Polio Eradication 🇪🇹 (2018-2023)

On the celebration of the #AfricaDay , #REACCT_CAN affirmas its commitments in training and equipping African cancer research leaders of the future whilst tackling priority cancer research challenges in Africa #DELTASAfricall #FromScienceToImpact

Congratulations all Ethiopians & friends! Just overwhelmed. We should & could have avoided all that mess. I believe we have learned, after burned, we have learned the hard way. Victory is for Ethiopia and peace itself. We must all cheer up and march forward than leaking wounds!

Students must go to school, farmers, and pastoralists to their fields, and public servants to their offices. The Agreement requires the support of the public for its smooth implementation. This is a new and hopeful chapter in the history of the country. #Ethiopiaatpeace

“Today is the beginning of a new dawn for Africa…African solutions for African problems.” Cessation of hostilities & systematic disarmament! Mike Hammer Mustafe M. Omer Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 hermela aregawi The New York Times Ann Fitz-Gerald Jeff Pearce

Congratulations to my husband Robel Yirgu (PhD) for successfully defending your PhD thesis today👏👏. A 3.5-year-long journey, 250 pages of a dissertation, sleepless nights, and hard work have finally paid off. I am proud of you! #UniversityofBrightonandSussex #AAUSPH #NTD

It was a busy April / May in #AddisAbaba #Ethiopia where we successfully organised a stakeholder engagement / consultation workshop on Alliance for HPSR funded project on Health Policy Analysis for Health Taxes.
Robert Marten
Selam
Henok G. Tegegn, PhD

Ethiopia: Researchers find contrasting levels of awareness of Article 5.3 across government sectors, with extremely limited awareness in departments beyond health. More work is needed to prevent tobacco control being undermined.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/… Selam Rob Ralston

📢New research publication 'They have a right to participate as a stakeholder: Article 5.3 implementation and government interactions with the tobacco industry in Ethiopia #TCCP GCRF Tobacco Control Capacity Programme Wakgari Deressa Rob Ralston tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/t…

#TCCP we had a successful stakeholders engagement meeting 🇪🇹 #AAU research findings on tobacco were presented and discussed GCRF Tobacco Control Capacity Programme Linda Bauld Wakgari Deressa Adamu Addissie Rob Ralston Sefonias Getachew, PhD

Tobacco Control Capacity Programme Webinar GCRF Tobacco Control Capacity Programme

Join us for the final webinar in the TCCP webinar series on Wednesday, 15 December, 09:30-10:30 UK

Register at: edin.ac/3GDlRqx

Great to see Robel Yirgu (PhD) present at the annual meeting of Control Scabies on effect of #Oncho ivermectin mass drug administration on #scabies in #Ethiopia . Robel is a BSMS Global Health @BSMS #phd student (with Prof Jackie Cassell, @davey_gail & myself) funded by NIHR Global Health.

We 100M+ Ethiopians elected our gov’t, stand in unison and say no to dictations & dictators. We have the right to develop and live in peace. Surrender to equality, justice & freedom. #HandsoffEthiopia . Millions demonstrating at Meskel SQ & other cities. #EthiopiaPrevails

GCRF Tobacco Control Capacity Programme Research Fellows, Selam, Ethiopia ; Dr. Denis Male, Uganda; Ms. Shalini Bassi, India and Praveen Kumar, India at NCTOH2021 presenting their study results on understanding the implementation of Article 5.3 in their respective countries