Rozina Tariku Assefa

Partner Institution: Ethiopian Public Health Institute

PhD Programme: Public Health

Enrolled University: Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development - University of Amsterdam

Rozina Tariku is a public health specialist working at Ethiopian Public Health institute recently as an acting director for disease and health events surveillance and response directorate. Also worked in the national public health institute as a public health emergency response expert previously. She has got her BSc degree in public health officer from Arbaminch University in 2012 and her MSc degree in general master’s in public health (GMPH) from Addis Ababa University in 2016. She used to work as a clinical practitioner in a rural health center in Ethiopia as her initial work experience.

She also worked as a coordinator of the national maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response system. During this time, she contributed a lot of achievements on the surveillance system improvement in the country. Also worked as a chair for the national TWG of MPDSR and SRH in humanitarian setting working groups. During a crisis situation in the country she has been able to lead and coordinate the emergency health response activities. Also participated as a co-author in six different published articles.  

She has coordinated the national outbreak investigation and response activities for the past six years. Many of these outbreaks are emerging and reemerging disease in the country like Covid_19, Cholera, Polio, Measles, Malaria, Dengue fever, Yellow fever and others.