Dr Amare Tadesse

MD PhD MPH

Assistant Professor

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Dr Amare is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, with a PhD in international maternal and child health from Uppsalala University, Sweden and post-doctoral training at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health as a Fogarty Global Health Fellow. He has effectively collaborated and partnered with academicians and researchers in Africa, Europe and United States of America. He has worked in higher education in Ethiopia and provided clinical services in both the public and private sector.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

TB Centre

Teaching

He teaches Epidemiology and Public Health courses for MSc Epidemiology and MSc Public Health. He supervises MPH students and PhD student. He serves as examining board committee/ panel member for MPH and PhD disserations.

Research

His research area focuses on maternal, adolescent and child health and nutrition, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. He is a peer reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals and a member of the Research Advisor Council of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health.

Research Area

Child health

Maternal health

Public health

Adolescent health

Global Health

Randomised controlled trials

Discipline

Epidemiology

Medicine

Nutrition

Operational research

Disease and Health Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Malnutrition

Tuberculosis

Non-communicable diseases

Country

Ethiopia

Sudan

Tanzania

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

A Chicken Production Intervention and Additional Nutrition Behavior Change Component Increased Child Growth in Ethiopia: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.

Passarelli S; Ambikapathi R; Gunaratna NS; Madzorera I; Canavan CR; Noor AR; Worku A; Berhane Y; Abdelmenan S; Sibanda S

2020

The Journal of Nutrition

Market food diversity mitigates the effect of environment on women's dietary diversity in the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) study, Ethiopia.

Ambikapathi R; Gunaratna NS; Madzorera I; Passarelli S; Canavan CR; Noor RA; Madzivhandila T; Sibanda S; Abdelmenan S; Tadesse AW

2019

Public Health Nutrition

Meeting the World Health Organization Maternal Antenatal Care Guidelines Is Associated with Improved Early and Middle Childhood Cognition in Ethiopia.

Douglas DB; Waziry R; McCarthy EP; Tadesse AW; Feyssa MD; Kawooya M; Sudfeld CR

2019

The Journal of pediatrics

Associations of childhood, maternal and household dietary patterns with childhood stunting in Ethiopia: proposing an alternative and plausible dietary analysis method to dietary diversity scores.

Melaku YA; Gill TK; Taylor AW; Adams R; Shi Z; Worku A

2018

Nutrition Journal

Choosing Anthropometric Indicators to Monitor the Response to Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Rural Southern Ethiopia-Empirical Evidence.

Tadesse AW; Tadesse E; Berhane Y; Ekström E-C

2017

Nutrients

Comparison of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference and Weight-for-Height to Diagnose Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Study in Southern Ethiopia.