Nahom Melesse Abamila

I am a research assistant in the research group Global Disaster Medicine – Health Needs and Response at the Department of Global Public Health. My role focuses on supporting the group with grant applications, along with general research assistance.

I am originally from Ethiopia and hold an MSc in Global Public Health from the University of Essex, England, as a Chevening Scholar. I also hold an MPH in Health Service Management. My MSc dissertation, a scoping review on maternal health in conflict-affected settings, highlighted how conflict erodes service delivery through structural and social mechanisms, with vulnerable groups disproportionately affected.

Before joining KI, I worked as a research assistant at the University of Essex in the UK, and in quality improvement and monitoring and evaluation for maternal and child health projects at Emory University, Ethiopia. I have also worked in public health emergency management and disease surveillance with the Global One Health Initiative, an affiliate of Ohio State University and as a Medical Director at a primary hospital in rural Ethiopia. Moreover, I am a Global Health fellow at the Centre for Global Health and Intersectional Equity Research at the University of Essex.

In my previous roles, I have worked with reviews, mixed-methods design, policy briefs, health policy analysis and translation on several topics, ranging from global health and public health to disease surveillance and health systems strengthening. 

My research interest revolves around in evidence synthesis in health policy and systems strengthening in resource-constrained and fragile settings, with extensive field experience in global public health. I have previously been involved in research projects on maternal and child health, public health emergency management and response, disease surveillance, health equity, migration health, and humanitarian and conflict-affected settings.

I have previously contributed to the delivery of the “Health Inequalities and Intersectionality 101” module for MSc students at the University of Essex.