Tulane University
Center for Global Health Equity
1440 Canal St. Ste 2350
New Orleans,
LA
USA
70112
wlemma@tulane.edu
Biographical Sketch:
2006 - Present Co- Director, Center for Global Health Equity, University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Country Director of the Ethiopia program.
March 2004- Present Research Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine/M&E advisor and Country Director Tulane University Ethiopia
2004- 2006 GAMET/World Bank M&E consultant
2004 Consultant, Institute for Health Sector Development, UK. Evaluation the Private sector
potential for Franchising TB and HIV/AIDS diagnosis and Care In sub Saharan Africa
2004-2006 Researcher/ Senior Advisor , IGAD Behavioral surveillance HIV/AIDS, TB and other diseas
affecting cross border populations at the Horn of Africa cross
Sep 2003-Feb 2004 M&E Advisor, HAPCO, Ethiopia, responsible for the development of the National Multi M&E
framework
Aug 2002- Aug 2003 Regional Senior Technical Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, Surveillance & Epidemiological Research, Ethiopia responsible for BSS/M&E technical assistance in Anglophone Africa, FHI, Virginia, USA.
Oct. 2000-2002 Senior Technical Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, Surveillance & Epidemiological Research FHI, Virginia, USA.
Jan 2000- Apr 2000 EPI Advisor, WHO – Namibia, Namibia.
1994–1999 Scientist/ NIH Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK.
Responsible for development and implementation of National health management information system and electronic heath record in Ethiopia
Responsible for implementation MScs programs in Health Monitoring Evaluation and Biostatistics/ Health Informatics in Ethiopia the 1st of its kind in Africa; Diploma training In Health Inframtics
More than 30 publications on tropical Medicine, Health information system, HIV, Malaria etc