Awash Teklehaimanot

Dr Awash Teklehaimanot, a native of Ethiopia, is a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public health and Director of Malaria Program in Columbia University. Professor Awash has received his first degree from Addis Ababa University and subsequent graduate and post graduate studies from a number of American Universities, which included masters in Environmerntal Health ,PhD in Medical entomology and parasitology, masters of Public Health from Harvard University and a post-doctoral work at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
Professor Awash has an extensive international experience in Public health with particular focus on Africa. He has worked for the World Health Organization in senior position in Geneva for the last 14 years. He was also be extensively involved during the last three years in the UN Millennium Project serving as one of the Coordinators for Task Force five which dealt with HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and Access to medicines.