CURRICULUM VITAE

I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Mesrach Ayalew Kebede
Sex: Female
Date of birth: February 02, 1988 G.C
Place of birth: Addis Ababa
Nationality: Ethiopian
E-mail: meserayu@gmail.com
II. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Addis Ababa University, School of public health, MPH, 2013

Hawassa University, Department of public health, BSc, 2007

III. WORK EXPERIENCE

1. St Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), 2008- Present , Referral and
teritiary teaching hospital
Lecturer, department of public health: March 2014-present

Lecturing students on public health courses of epidemiology and environmental

health

Advising final-year medical students for their individual research undertakings

since March 2014

Post graduate filed epidemiology training program residents mentor since

September 2015

Head of Quality Management Office, 2013-present

Take the responsibility in the reform implementation and follow up of care with
quality standards and key performance indicators of the college

Have developed different protocols for the hospital (admission and discharge
protocol, referral protocol, medical equipment management policy,..etc)

Ethiopian Hospital Alliance for Quality member and representative of the college

Coordinating the activities of the Quality Committee as its Executive Secretary.

Engaging in the activities of the various committees of the college: Medical Services
Senate, Infection Prevention, Drug And Therapeutic, Clean And Safe Hospital,
Medical Equipment, etc.

Participating in the colleges strategic planning

Coordinator of service award and competition since November 2014

Liaison Office Coordinator 2009-2011

Duty coordinator and referral focal person 2010-2011

Diagnosing and treating patients at OPD level 2009-2010

2. Yergalem Referral Hospital, Hawassa

Health Officer: November, 2007 February, 2008

Diagnosing and treating patients at OPD level

3. ABH consultancy and training center, Addis Ababa, Private consultancy firm
Trainer: June 2012

Training health professional on Palliative and Clinical Nutrition Care for PLHIV

4. USAID, Save the Children, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Trainer: March 2010

Training health professional on Clinical Nutrition Care for Health Workers,

IV. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assessed The level of adherence to Food-By -Prescription program among adult HIV
positive adults in Addis Ababa in my masters project which has revealed significant
proportion of the beneficiaries to be non-adherent to therapeutic feeding due to
unacceptability of the product.

Quality of health care in St Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College, a study

conducted with SPHMMC grant mainly focused on patients satisfaction and incident
reporting culture.

Non- adherence and its contributing factors of Type -I Diabetes Mellitus among
pediatric patients in SPHMMC and ongoing research sponsored by the Ethio-Canada
Micro Research Initiative (EC-MR)

V. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Advanced Cancer Registration Method and Use on CAN- REG 5, August 27/2015, African
Cancer Registry Network in collaboration with AAU, Addis Ababa.

Research In Clinical Setting And Grant Writing, July 27-30/2015, SPHMMC Medical
University of South Carolina, Addis Ababa.

Fundamentals of leadership, Center for African Leadership Studies, June 7, 2015, Addis
Ababa.

A public health Approach to Quality Management, healthQual International, December

8-12, 2014, New York, USA

International Clinical Micro- Research Training, SPHMMC, September 2014, Addis

Ababa.

Research Methodology Workshop, May 26-29, 2014, SPHMMC, Addis Ababa.

Clinical Mentorship: Ipas, 2014, Adama.

Quantitative Methods On Clinical Public Health Research: Harvard University online

learning, Feb 1, 2013.

Reproductive Health Commodity Security: AAU in collaboration with UNFPA, April 20-

21, 2012, Addis Ababa.

TOT on Palliative Care and Nutrition And Prevention With Positive (PWP): Johns

Hopkins University/TSEHAI, December 10-21, 2009, Adama.

VI. LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
Language: Fluent in Amharic and English
Computer: Excellent in MS office and software packages of SPSS, Epi-info, Open Code and
Endnote
VII. PUBLICATION
- Kebede and Haidar: Factors influencing adherence to the food by prescription program
among adult HIV positive patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a facility-based, cross-sectional
study. Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2014 3:20.
VIII. AWARDS

St. Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College Extraordinary Staff, 2014/2015.

Research grant award, SPHMMC, 2014

IX. CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

The 13th World Congress on Public Health, April 23-27, 2015, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.

St. Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College 1st research conference on August 4,
2015

X. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) Since 2014

XI. REFERENCES
1. Dr. Berhane Redae, Medical Service Vice Provost, St Pauls Hospital Millennium
Medical College, E-mail: berhane@mail.ru
2. Prof. Jemal Haidar, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University,
E-mail: hjemal@gmail.com