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Awash Teklehaimanot
Curriculum Vitae
September 4, 2003
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Earth
Institute
2910
Broadway
Hogan
Hall, B-16
New
York, NY 10027
Center
of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Department
of Epidemiology
Mailman
School of Public Health
Columbia
University
New
York, NY 10032
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Professor of clinical Epidemiology, Dept
of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Director, Malaria Program at
Columbia University |
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/24/50
PLACE OF BIRTH: Hawzien,
Tigray, Ethiopia
CITIZENSHIP: Ethiopia
TELEPHONE: 212/854-9651
FAX: 212/854
8702
E-Mail: at2076@columbia.edu
EDUCATION:
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Certificate: Malaria Epidemiology and
Control
WHO Malaria Training Centre, Nazareth, Ethiopia |
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1966 |
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Certificate: Programme Planning and Evaluation
of Malaria Control
WHO Malaria Training Centre, Nazareth, Ethiopia |
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1966 |
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Certificate: Senior Laboratory Technician's
Course in Malaria
WHO Malaria Training Centre, Lagos, Nigeria |
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1967-1970 |
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BSc in Biology and Chemistry
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
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1976-1978 |
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MSc in Biology and Environmental
Health
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio |
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1978-1982 |
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PhD in Medical Entomology/Parasitology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Thesis title: Physical and chemical
effects of animal waste lagoons in the production of Culex Pipiens mosquitoes,
vectors of viral encephalitis |
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1983 |
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Certificate: Epidemic Intelligence Service
(EIS),
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia |
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1987-1988 |
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MPH in Tropical Public Health and Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts |
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING:
1982 - 1983 |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, GA
Training in Malariology and Epidemiology |
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| 1983 |
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Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, Atlanta,
GA
Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
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| 1988 |
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Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard
University
DNA Probe Diagnosis of Malaria |
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES:
Ethiopian
Public Health Association
Ethiopian
Medical Association
Ethiopian
Malaria Control Professionals Association
Society
for Vector Ecology
American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
1966-1970 |
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Malaria Control Officer, National
Malaria Program, Ethiopia |
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| 1970- 1973 |
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Malaria Zone Chief, National Malaria
Program, Ethiopia |
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1974 |
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Regional Director, US Peace Corps, Ethiopia |
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| 1975- 1976 |
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Program Officer, Rural Development,
Peace Corps, Ethiopia |
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| 1984-1990 |
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Head, National Programme for Malaria
Control and Other Vector-borne Diseases, Ministry of Health,
Ethiopia |
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1990-1998 |
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Team Member, Epidemic Prevention
and Control, CDT, WHO,
Geneva |
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1998-2001 |
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Team leader for Technical Support
and Capacity, RBM, Geneva |
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| 2000 |
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Acting Project Manager, RBM, Geneva |
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| 2000-2001 |
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Technical Coordinator, RBM, Geneva |
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2001-present |
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Director of Malaria Program,
Columbia University, New York, NY |
ADDITIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS:
1985-1990 |
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Member, National Advisory Committee
on Health Policy, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia |
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1985-1990 |
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Member, Senior Management Committee
of Ministry of Health, Ethiopia |
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1993-present |
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Member, WHO/AFRO Task Force
on Malaria Prevention and Control |
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1994-1998 |
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Member, WHO/HQ Working Group on
Continental Africa |
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1998-1990 |
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Member, TDR Steering Committee
on Applied Field Research in Malaria |
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| 1989 |
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Member, WHO Expert Advisory Panel on
Malaria |
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1989 |
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Member, Panel of Experts on Environmental
Management (FAO/WHO/UNEP) |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1979-1982 |
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Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana
Research and Teaching Assistant in medical
entomology |
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1985-1989 |
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Addis Ababa University, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Guest Lecturer on the epidemiology of malaria
and its control |
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1992-present |
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Harvard School of Public Health,
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Visiting Scholar on malaria epidemiology |
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2003 |
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Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University
Teaching the epidemiology of malaria (P8469)
to graduate students |
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1992-present |
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World Health Organization:
International Course on the Epidemiology of malaria, Planning
and its Control |
HONORS and AWARDS:
1976-1978 |
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Food and Agricultural Organization
(AFO-UN) Fellowship Training for MSc on Environmental Health
at Bowling Green State, University, Bowling Green, OH |
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1987-1988 |
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World Health Organization (WHO)
FellowshipTraining for MPH at Harvard School of Public Health,
Harvard University, Boston, MA |
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1991 |
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Member, Committee on Malaria Prevention
and Control
Institute of Medicine, Washington D.C. |
GRANTS*:
1990-1994 |
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Madagascar Malaria Program. World
Bank - $5,000,000 |
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1991-1993 |
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National Namibian Programme. Department
for International Development (DfID)- United Kingdom, $800,000 |
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1994-1995 |
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Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Community- based malaria control. Italian Cooperation, through
WHO-$400,000 |
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1994-1995 |
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Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia. Promotion
of malaria control in the informal private sector involving village
health workers and shop keepers. DfID- UK, through WHO -$70,000 |
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1995-1996 |
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Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Community based malaria control. Italian Coopération through
WHO-$490,000 |
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1996-1997 |
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Eritrea Malaria Program. Italian
Cooperation through WHO -$1,000,000 |
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1997-1998 |
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Management of severe malaria at
district hospitals in 11 African countries.
Japan International
Cooperation Agency ( JICA) through WHO -$200,000 |
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1997-1998 |
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Accelerated implementation of
Malaria Control in 23 African countries. WHO Director General's
Special Fund-$20,000,000 |
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1998-1999 |
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Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Community- based malaria control. Italian Cooperation, through
WHO-$960,000 |
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1998-1999 |
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Malaria at community level and
in urban areas of Africa. USAID-$200,000 |
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1999-2000 |
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Support to RBM implementation
in Four African countries.
Italian Cooperation through WHO -
$1,000,000 |
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2000-2001 |
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Support to RBM implementation
in African Countries.
Italian Cooperation through WHO -$5,000,000 |
* Was involved in the preparation of proposals for
the various African countries to secure funding and in the implementation,
monitoring of control efforts and reporting to the funding
agencies on the use of the allocated grants. The $20 Million
allocation during 1997-1988 was from a special fund of the
Director General of WHO. My responsibility was to prepare a
proposal for its use, selection of recipient countries and
managing its implementation in close collaboration with the
WHO regional Office for Africa.
PUBLICATIONS
*1. Teklehaimanot A, Nguyen-Dinh P, Collins WE, Barber AM,
Campbell CC. 1985. Evaluation of sporontocidal compounds using Plasmodium
falciparum gametocytes
produced in vitro . Am J Trop Med Hyg, 34:429-34
2. Nguyen-Dinh P, Payne D, Teklehaimanot A, Zevallosipenza
A, Day MM, Duverseau YT. 1985. Development of an in vitro micro
test for determining the susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to
sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine: Laboratory investigations and field
studies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bull World Health Org, 63:585-92
*3. Teklehaimanot A, Williams RE. 1985. Larvicidal activity
of Bacillus thuringiensis , var. israelensis H-14
against Culex pipiens in Swine Waste Lagoons. Journal
of the Fla Anti-Mosquito Assoc, 56:1-5
4. Wolfe MS, Breman JG, Ainoworth B, Teklehaimanot A, Patchen
L. 1985. Chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria
in Northern Malawi. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 34:847-9
5. Gebremariam N, Teklehaimanot A. 1986. In vivo assessment
of Plasmodium falciparum sensitivity to chloroquine
in Ethiopia. WHO/MAL/86 , 1023:1-9
*6. Teklehaimanot A. 1986. Choroquine-resistant Plasmodium
falciparum malaria in Ethiopia. Lancet, 2 :
127-9
*7. Teklehaimanot A. 1986. Malaria situation in Ethiopia.
Proceedings of the Conference on malaria in Africa. Practical
consideration on malaria vaccines and clinical trials. Washington
D.C., USA, December 1-4.
8. Gardner AL, Miller S, Teklehaimanot A. 1987. Determination
of enzyme variants of glucose phosphate isomerase in Plasmodium
falciparum by isolectric and polyacrylamide electrophoresis.
Internat J Parasit, 17: 835-39
*9. Teklehaimanot A, Collins W, Nguyen-Dingh P, Campbell CC,
Bhasin V. 1987. Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum cloned
lines with respect to gametocyte production in vitro ,
infectivity to Anopheles mosquitoes, and transmission
in Aotus monkeys. Trans R. Soc Trop Med Hyg, 81:
885-87
10. Spielman A, Perrone JB, Teklehaimanot A, Balch F, Wardlaw
SC, Levine RA. 1988. Malaria diagnosis by direct observation
of centrifuge sample of blood. Am Jour Trop Med Hyg, 39:337-42
11. Fletcher M, Teklehaimanot A. 1989. Schistosoma infection
in a settlement in Metekel district, northwestern Ethiopia:
morbidity and side effects of teatment with praziquantel in
relation to intensity of infection. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg,
83:793-97
*12. Teklehaimanot A, Fletcher M. 1990. A parasitological
and malacological survey of Schistosomiasis mansoni in
the Beles Valley, northwestern Ethiopia. J Trop Med Hyg, 93:12-21
*13. Teklehaimanot A. Organization for malaria control, Malaria
Waiting for the Vaccine, 1991, edited
by National Academy Press .
*14. Teklehaimanot A. Malaria obstacles and opportunities,
Report of Institute of Medicine, 1991, edited by National Academy
Press, Institute of Medicine.
15. Fletcher M, Teklehaimanot A,Yemane G. 1992. Control of
mosquito larvae in the port city of Assab by an indigenous
larvivorous fish, Aphanius dispar . Acta Tropica,
52:155-66
16. Fletcher M, Teklehaimanot A, Kassahun A. 1993. Using fish
against malaria: a local initiative. World Health Forum ,
14:176-177
17. Ribeiro JMC, Seulu F, Abose T, Kidane G, Teklehaimanot
A. 1996. Temporal and spatial distribution of anopheline mosquitoes
in an Ethiopian village: implications for malaria control strategies.
Bull World Health Org, 74: 229-305
18. Ghebreyesus TA, Alemayehu T, Bosman A, Witten KH, Teklehaimanot
A. 1996. Community participation in malaria control in Tigray
region, Ethiopia, Acta Tropica, 6i:145-46
19. Alemayehu T, Yeibiyo Y, Ghebreyesus TA, Witten KH, Bosman
A, Teklehaimanot A. 1998. Malaria, schistosomiasis and intestinal
helminths in relation to microdams in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.
Parasitologia, 40:259-67
20. Ghebreyesus TA, Jones KR, Teklehaimanot A. 1998. Analysis
of proliferative responses of peripheral-blood lymphocytes
and T cell clones from malaria unexposed donors to Plasmodium
yoelii and P. falciparum antigens. Eth J Hlth
Deve, 12:103-109
21. Alemayehu T, Ghebreyesus TA, Bosman A, Witten KH, Teklehaimanot
A. 1998. Community-based malaria control programme in Tigray
region, northern Ethiopia. Results of a mortality survey of
children under 5 years of age living in rural areas, Eth J
Hlth Dev, 12:203-11.
22. Ghebreyesus TA, Witten KH, Getachew A, O'Neill K, Bosman
A, Teklehaimanot A. 1999. Community-based malaria control in
Trigray, northern Ethiopia. Parasitologia, 41:367-71
*23. Teklehaimanot A, Bosman A. 1999. Opportunities, problems
and perspectives for malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa.
Parasitologia, 41:335-38
24. Ghebreyesus TA, Witten, KH., Getachew A, Yohannes AM,
Tesfay M, Bosman A, Teklehaimanot A. 2000. The Community-based
malaria control programme in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. A review
of Programme set-up, activities, outcomes and impact. Parasitologia;
42:255-290
*25. Teklehaimanot A, Keusch G, Binder S. 2001. Conference
panel Summaries. Malaria. Emerging Infectious Diseases 7 (3):
546-7 supplement.
*26. Teklehaimanot A, Snow RW. 2002. Will the Global Fund
help Roll Back Malaria in Africa? Lancet, 360:888-89
27. Tarekegn A. Abeku, Sake J. de Vlas, Gerard Borsboom,
Awash Teklehaimanot, Asnakew Kebede, Derege Olana, Gerrit J.
van Oortmarssen, J.D. F. Habbema. 2002. Forcecasting malaria
incidence from historical morbidity patterns in epidemic-prone
areas of Ethiopia: A simple seasonal adjustment method performs
best. 7(10): 851-57
28. Curtis C., Maxwell C., Lemnge M., Kilama WL., Steketee
RW., Howley WA., Bergevin Y., Campbel C., Sachs J., Teklehaimanot
A., Ochola S., Guyatt H., Snow RW. 2003. Scaling up coverage
with Insecticide-treated Nets against malaria in Africa: Who
should pay? Lancet (5): 304-7 31.
29. Snow RW, Eckert, Teklehaimanot A. 2003. Estimating the
needs for artesunate-based combination therapy for malaria
case management in Africa. TRENDS in Parasitology.19(8):363-9
30. Kiszewski A., Teklehaimanot A. 2003. Review of clinical
and epidemiological burdens of epidemic malaria. Submitted
to Am Jour Trop Med Hyg .
31. Ghebreyesus TA, Witten KH, Getachew A, Medhin A, Alemayehu
T, Bosman A, Teklehaimanot A. 2003. An impregnated bednet initiative
in Humera, Ethiopia. Bednet and willingness to buy bednets
in Raiwan resettlement community. Submitted for publication
to the Eth JHlth deve
32. Abose T, Ameneshewa B, Teklehaimanot A, Tulu AN, Patricia
V. 2003. Studies on Anopheles gambiae complex species
in Ethiopia. Eth J Hlth Deve, in pres
33. Teklehaimanot A., Olana D.,Hailemariam A., kebede A.,
Tesfaye G., Ringvald P. 2003. Detection of chloroquine resistant Plasmodium
vivax strains in the Rift Valley, Ethiopia. In preparation
for submission to Am Jour Trop Med Hyg. |
