I am a Medical Doctor with specialization in Pediatrics and Child Health from Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia and have a PhD in Public Health/Health Economics from the University of Bergen. In 2016-2017, I was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I have over 25 years of experience as a clinician and public health specialist, and held various positions in governmental institutes, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, in Ethiopia. I am a health system researcher with additional clinical and academic experience as a lecturer to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the School of Medicine at AAU. Currently, I am working as the director of Addis Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, AAU. I am also member of the Ethiopia's National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) and the Research Advisory Council (RAC) at the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia.

My main research focus is health economics and priority-setting and examining the cost and cost-effectiveness of health interventions in Ethiopia. Some of my Ethiopian studies have included: assessment of household out-of-pocket expenditures and associated impoverishment for vaccine preventable diseases, cost-effectiveness analyses of maternal and child health interventions, cost-effectiveness analyses of introducing the birth doses of hepatitis B- vaccine into the expanded immunization program in Ethiopia, extended cost-effectiveness analysis of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines, analyses of inequality in health services utilization, and estimating the burden of cancers in Ethiopia. I have also co-authored many publications related to economic evaluations and health systems in Ethiopia.