{"id":2303,"date":"2026-02-04T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/?page_id=2303"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:18:10","slug":"awoke-misganaw-temesgen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/faculty-staff\/awoke-misganaw-temesgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoke Misganaw Temesgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temesgen_Misganaw_Awoke_TPD_120115.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Awoke Temesgen Misganaw\" class=\"wp-image-164\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temesgen_Misganaw_Awoke_TPD_120115.jpg 154w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temesgen_Misganaw_Awoke_TPD_120115-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temesgen_Misganaw_Awoke_TPD_120115-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awoke Misganaw Temesgen<\/h2>\n<p><em>Clinical Associate Professor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:awoket@uw.edu\">awoket@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Awoke Misganaw Temesgen (PhD) is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Health Metrics Sciences Department, University of Washington. In this role, he leads burden of disease collaborative initiative between IHME and Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI). Dr. Awoke is PI with Prof. Mohsen Naghavi for a collaborative research project between IHME and EPHI funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $12 M, 2019 \u2013 2023, that supports subnational burden of disease analysis and build capacity for National Data Management Center (NDMC) for health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Awoke has led the conceptualization, designing and establishment of National Data Management Center (NDMC) for health, with different units including burden of disease at EPHI in Ethiopia. Currently, he is a senior researcher and advisor for the NDMC which focuses on continuously gathering health and health related data available at research institutes, academics and agencies in Ethiopia; store, manage, share, analyze and synthesize available data; and timely disseminate and facilitate use of evidences for public health impact by Ministry of Health and its partners.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Awoke interests are burden of disease analysis, causes of death, building data system and analytic capacity in resource poor settings, networking and collaboration, and translating evidence to health policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Awoke has been lecturer and researcher at Addis Ababa University and has served in the clinical and leadership positions as public health officer in the Ethiopia health care system. He has published a lot on peer-reviewed journals, contributed to guidelines, books, and book chapters. He has got Best Research Award of the Year 2013 form Addis Ababa University.<\/p>\n<p>He studied at School of Public Health in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, earning his Master\u2019s degree (MPH) and PhD in Public Health. He has completed Post-Graduate Fellowship at IHME, University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awoke Misganaw Temesgen Clinical Associate Professor Email: awoket@uw.edu Awoke Misganaw Temesgen (PhD) is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Health Metrics Sciences Department, University of Washington. In this role, he leads burden of disease collaborative initiative between IHME and Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI). Dr. Awoke is PI with Prof. Mohsen Naghavi for a collaborative research project between IHME and EPHI funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $12 M, 2019 \u2013 2023, that supports subnational burden of disease analysis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":1999,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-no-title.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2303\/revisions\/2436"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}