Ayinalem Alemu Shitie

Associate Researcher II

Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia

VALIDATE Role:

Network Affiliate

Research Keywords:

Tuberculosis, Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria, Drug-Resistance, Molecular Epidemiology, Diagnostic Evaluation, Vaccine Trial, Technology Assessment

Biography:

Mr. Ayinalem Alemu who is an associate researcher at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) and Tuberculosis laboratory Research Team under the Ethiopian Public Health Institute since February 2016. He is an experienced and dedicated public health researcher with more than 15 years of experience working in the all the health care tier systems of Ethiopia starting from peripheral (primary health care unit), then regional level (regional public health institute) up to the national level (national public health institute. He has been serving as a NTRL and TB research Team leader, and other institutional positions. Academically he has Medical Laboratory Technology background with Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology, and another MSc in Clinical Laboratory Science.

Mr. Ayinalem is an experienced and dedicated researcher with 56 research publications mainly focused on tuberculosis (40 articles). Some of his research works were used as an input for the WHO recommendations. Currently, he is finalizing his PhD project entitled “Tuberculosis in patients with chronic kidney disease and diabetes mellitus in Ethiopia” which studies molecular epidemiology, drug resistance pattern, and transmission dynamics of TB, NTM co-infection and evaluation of LF-LAM for TB testing. My research priorities are advancing active and latent TB diagnosis in patients with chronic diseases, molecular epidemiology of TB including extrapulmonary cases, drug-resistant TB predictors, new TB diagnostic technology evaluations, vaccine trial, diagnostic technology development, use of NTM for TB vaccine development and other TB researches.

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