Mengistu Hailemariam Zenebe

As a medical Laboratory technologist i have worked medical microbiology with more than 18 years of experiance in clinical sample diagnosisi, teaching and condacting research in Ethiopian University hospital. I have I began my career at Hawassa University in 2016 as an assistant lecturer and have now moved up to assistant professor in medical microbiology. Beyond stuent research advice, I teaches bacteriology, virology, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis for medical and health sciences students.

• Certificate of attendance the virtual live Keystone Symposia eSymposia meeting, 'The Microbiome: From Mother to Child'
• Training of Trainers on Malaria Laboratory Diagnosis and Quality Assurance organized by Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute EHNRI in collaboration with ICAP - Columbia University and USAID at Adama Regional Lab Adama, Ethiopia
• Certificate of participation in the training on Institutional Design Training Organized And Implemented by Jhpiego, with USAID project, tommy international hotel Bishoftu Ethiopia
• Attendance certificate in Human Participant Protection, GCP and SOP training conducted by PABIN: AHRI/ALERT in collaboration with MEPI, school of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Certificate of participation in the training on Research methods and Research Ethics organized and sponsored by EPHLA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Certificate of participation in the TB Smear Microscopy TOT training organized and sponsored by EHNRI, Adama, Ethiopia
• Certificate of participation in the ten-day theoretical and practical TOT training in CD4, Clinical chemistry and Hematology organized and sponsored by Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute/Addis Ababa Regional Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University/TSEHAI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Certificate of completion for curriculum development and grant writing work shop organized by AAU in collaboration of Communicable disease control (CDC) and American society of clinical Pathologist (ASCP)
• Certificate of completion on pre-service curriculum content revision and teaching methodologies workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Certificate of participation for active participation in the University curriculum development process from National council for curriculum development and implementation
• Certificate of Merit as the best researcher of the year by student research committee, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

• Teaching and coordination experiance
• Post graduate coordinator of the school of medical laboratory
• Module team leader of medical microbiology.
• Coordinator of CEP program of the school.
• Instructor at Hawassa University for more than 18 years
• My teaching experience in medical microbiology mainly on Medical Virology and Bacteriology for both BSc and MSc students is the one.

• Excperiance in curriculem development and continious mdfication
• Trainer for several effective teaching and competency-based training approaches.
• I had worked as IRB member at Hawassa University
• Reviwer for several articles on reputable journals
• Acadamic editor for International Journal of Advances in Nephrology Research
• Worked as microbiology modular team leader in the department of Medical Laboratory sciences.
• Worked as a coordinater of post graduate and CEP program in the departmet of Medical Laboratory sciences.
• Conducting different academic and related services in the university; Teaching undergraduate, and graduate students, advising thesis work of final year students participating in Community based training program (CBTP
• Eexternal examiner at Arbaminch University and Arsi negele medical college

• Acadamic editor for PLOS ONE journal
• Acadamic editor for International Journal of Advances in Nephrology Research
• Executive committee UGent Alumni chapter
• Member of Ethiopian Chapter Alumni Association of Ghent University
• Member of American socity of medical microbiology
• Member of ethiopian medical laboratory association
• Member of ethiopian publich health association

• MSc scholarship award by Ethiopian government (2009 - 2011)
• PhD scholarship awarded by the Belgian government through VLIR-UOS (2018 - 2021)
• GLOBAL MINDS FUND by the Belgian government through VLIR-UOS (2021)

• Advising several BSc and MSc students thesis work.
• Published more than 30 articles mainly on maternal health, congenital CMV, STIs, TB and HIV, indoor air bacterial load at operation rooms. I have presented my research finding to different national and international confrences.

• Date of Birth: Addis Ababa 1977
• Nationality: Ethiopian

• Performance evaluation of laboratory professionals on tuberculosis microscopy at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia, African Journal of Microbiology Research, Vol. 9(16), 1132-1138, 22 April, 2015
• Impact of HIV Status on Treatment Outcome of Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Arsi Negele Health Center, Southern Ethiopia: A Six Year Retrospective Study, PLoS ONE, Volume 11(4), April 2016
• HIV screening among TB patients and level of antiretroviral therapy and co-trimoxazole preventive therapy for TB/HIV patients in Hawassa University Referral Hospital: a five year retrospective study, Pan Africa Medical Journal, 28, 75, 2017
• Assessment of community knowledge about TB and its transmission in rural area of Shahemene, Southern Ethiopia, Journal of public health and epidemiology, Vol 7(3), 91-97, March 2015
• Major bacterial isolate and antibiotic resistance from routine clinical samples in Southern Ethiopia, Scientific Reports, 11, 19710, 2021
• Prevalence of N. Gonorrhea and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns among Women Attending a Gynecology Outpatient Department in Hawassa Referral Hospital Hawassa, Ethiopia, Ethiop J Health Sciences, 2013, 23(1), 185-193
• Prevalence, risk factors and association with delivery outcome of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Southern Ethiopia, PLoS One, 16, 3, e0248958, 2021
• Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infections Mother-Newborn Pair Study in Southern Ethiopia, Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2021

• Prof. Dr. Elizaveta Padalko, Laboratory of Clinical Biology – Medical Microbiology, 2P8, Ghent University Hospital, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, +32-9 332 2108, elizaveta.padalko@uzgent.be
• Dr. Eskinder Loha, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, eskindir.l.shumbullo@uib.no
• Tariku Lambiyo Anticho, Assistant Professor of Medical Parasitology, Hawassa University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, +251916828061, tarikul003a@yahoo.com