EDUCATION

MSc, Bio-statistics, Jimma University, Ethiopia 2012

BSc, Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 2005

SKILLS

Statistical and programming Tools:

R, SAS, STATA, Tableau, SPSS, SQL, MySQL and Microsoft Access, Excel

Methodology:

Data cleaning, data extraction, Exploratory data analysis and Data visualization

Longitudinal study, survival analysis, GLM and Time series

Modeling and Machine learning (supervised and unsupervised)

EXPERIENCE

1-Biostatistician in the rank of Assistant professor, Mekelle University, Ethiopia 2012-2016

Work closely with researchers, physicians and other health professionals to implement various projects and researches.

Apply advanced statistical analysis methods on different projects and researches

Explore data from various data sources: Databases, Electronic hospital records and other sources

Prepare articles for publication and/or presentation in national and international conferences

Teaching biostatistics courses and advising thesis papers for post graduate students

Training statistical analysis (SPSS, STATA, R and EPI-Info)

Projects involved:

Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) of Ethiopia- Longitudinal study

Responsible for handling and controlling the database system of the project

Responsible for data extraction, data cleaning, data analysis and developing a model (SQL, STATA and R)

Apply advanced statistical methods (ANOVA, linear regression, logistic regression, survival analysis, longitudinal study) on Birth, Death, Migration and Verbal Autopsy (VA) data of the country

Analyze the cause of death among the population using verbal autopsy (Logistic regression, survival analysis)

Analyze and develop model to predict the birth, death, in-migration and out-migration of the population in Ethiopia (Logistic regression, survival analysis, ).

Writing reports on Birth, Death, migration and verbal autopsy of the country

Data extraction, data merging, statistical analysis with similar projects all over the world in collaboration with ISHARE2 (SQL, R, STATA)

Writing finding for publication

Community study health surveys– cross sectional study

Responsible for designed appropriate statistical tools

Data cleaning, data analysis and models (SQL, STATA, R)

Apply logistic regression, linear regression, ANOVA and survival analysis (SAS, STATA, R, SPSS and Epi-info)

2-Statistician, Housing Development Agency 2006-2010

Mainly responsible for programming and analysis (SAS, STATA, R)

Designing statistical tools data collection

Extract data from different databases and data cleaning

Performed data manipulation, analysis and reports writing and presentation

SELECTED CERTIFICATE COURSES

R Certificates: - Data Scientist with R Track: Datacamp

- Data Science Specialization Johns Hopkins University: Coursera

SQL Certificates: - Querying with Transact-SQL: edX

- SQL: Udemy

- Introduction to SQL: Datacamp

Tableau certificates: - Tableau for beginners: Udemy

- Advanced tableau: Udemy

SAS Certificates: - SAS 9: Jimma University in collaboration with VLIR UOS Belgium

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Huruy A, Tefera B, Legesse N. Socio-demographic factors associated with underweight and stunting among adolescents in Ethiopia. Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 20:252. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2015.20.252.3588.

Bahre T, Huruy A, Kiday H. Prevalence and determinant factors of exclusive breastfeeding practices among mothers in Enderta woreda, Tigray, North Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. International Breastfeeding Journal. 2015; 10:2 DOI 10.1186/s13006-014-0028.

Yilma C, Wondwossen T, Huruy A, Serawit L Prevalence and factors associated with diabetic retinopathy among diabetic patients at Arbaminch General Hospital, Ethiopia: Cross sectional study. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3): e0171987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171987.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

INDEPTH Data Management Program (IDMP) - ISHARE2 Training Workshop: 9 May 2016 to 22 May 2016, Dubai.

EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY (VISA TYPE)

I have Employment Authorization Document (EAD).

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