I have a background in reproductive Health, maternal and child health. I have been mentoring several masters and PhD students studying sexual and reproductive health, communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, child growth and survival, nutrition and dietetics. My key research areas are pregnancy and child birth, family planning, child growth and development and infant and child survival. I have authored and co-authored more than hundred articles on international peer reviewed journals. I had been leading a longitudinal community based demographic and health surveillance over 190 thousand populations in rural and urban areas of Harar and Kersa in Eastern Ethiopia. I am also the co-PI for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Ethiopia site which is one of the seven sites currently operating in the world in both Kersa and Harar study areas.