Tadesse G. Edesa

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Professional Summary

Public health expert with over 20 years of experience in environmental health and waste management

Motivated, knowledgeable and experienced with environmental health in university and healthcare settings

Applies knowledge of waste management in industry to ensure client satisfaction and motivate team members

Specialized in ensuring compliance of regulations and safety standards

Current Professional Experience

Quality Assurance Coordinator Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountain February 2020+

Manufacturing Assembler

Terumo BCT, Lakewood, CO February 2018 - Present

Working in a medical manufacturing clean room environment

Performing procedures and associated documentation to assemble, bond, or weld components or subassemblies together in accordance with assembly Manufacturing Operation Procedures.

Related Professional Experience

Business Owner

Green Jimma, Jimma, Ethiopia October 2013 - November 2016

Started and owned business in Ethiopia in community-based waste management (waste leasing strategy)

Developed innovative strategy for the collection and recovery of waste to convert into useful materials

Created job opportunities and income to waste pickers and composters, reduced waste management costs and kept the environment free from pollution

Awarded African Entrepreneurship Award, 2015 in the category of environment

Assistant Professor of Solid Waste Management & Director of Community Based Education

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia October 2013 - November 2016

Conducted research projects, prepared lecture notes, scheduled field visits, classroom teaching, prepared examination for graduate students and advise students research projects

Led project planning, reported research budget, executed inventory of technologies project “Remediation of fluoride in sources".

Established a partnership program with VLIR-OUS (Belgium) and Jimma University (Ethiopia), African Institute of Science (Tanzania), and Technical University of Kenya

Lecturer

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia October 2007 - October 2009

Head of Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology and Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation in Jimma University Specialized Hospital

r unning the academic activities of the department

Responsible for all sanitation/infection control activities in the hospital, including the policy training for all staff

Lecturer

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia October 2005 - September 2007

Taught industrial hygiene and occupational health safety course

Organized onsite visits to restaurants, food prep industries, and food service establishments

Conduct inspection of food service establishments and industries

Assistant Lecturer

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia February 1999 - September 2004

Taught food sanitation and a course entitled: “Introduction to Environmental Health”

Engaged learners by providing various teaching methodologies

Provided opportunities for students to utilize laboratory facility to apply newly learned information

District Sanitarian

Gode, Ethiopia July 1987- January 1988

Conducted food safety investigations as a district sanitarian

Coordinated Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), a vaccination initiative for children under five years old

Coordinated training program for Community Health Agents and Trained Birth Attendants

Education

Ph.D., Sustainable Management of Solid Waste in Medium-Sized Urban Centers in East Africa

Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium September 2009- September 2013

Master of Science, Land Ecology

International Training Centre (ITC), University of Twente, the Netherlands September 2004 - September 2005

Bachelor of Science, Environmental Health Science

Jimma University, Ethiopia September 1996 - March 1999

Advanced Diploma

Ministry of Health, Post Basic Training on Teaching Methodology, Health Sciences Tutor's Training Program

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia September 1991 - September 1992

Associate Degree in Sanitary Science

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia September 1984 - September1986

Short Term Training

Agricultural Byproduct Management and Utilization

McGill University and Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

Jimma, Ethiopia June 2010 - July 2010

General Management

Ethiopian Management Institute, Ethiopia August 2005- August 2005

Skills and Awards

Teaching in higher education and work place safety and regulation

Directed community based environmental initiatives: planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation

Demonstrated knowledge of RCRA and requirements relating to the identification of waste and generator inspections

Thorough knowledge of complex regulations specific to the environmental waste industry, management principles and best practices including analysis and evaluation and research methods and strategies

Knowledgeable of current industrial safety practices and industrial hygiene; hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal operations

Works under pressure, exercises independent judgment to select effective course of action while controlling resources and expenditures

2015 African Entrepreneurship Award, dedication to keeping the environment free from pollution

Healthcare Related Publications

Sahiledengle B., Hiko D., Gebresilassie A., Tadesse Getahun (2018). Healthcare Waste Segregation, Treatment and Disposal Practices in Governmental Healthcare Facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management 11(1): 73 – 85, 2018. ISSN:1998-0507 doi: https://ejesm.org/doi/v11i1.7

Kitesa, B., Tadesse Getahun, Wako K. (2016), Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Adolescent In-School Girls Towards Menstrual Hygiene Management and Determining Factors in Lucy Village of Ethiopian Great Rift Valley, Int. J. Immunology

Mengistu Damtew, Tadesse Getahun, Zeleke Mekonen, Dante Santiago, Luc Leyns. Molecular epidemiology, characterization, transmission dynamics and infection risk factors of Giardia duodenalis in Southern Ethiopia: Triosephosphate isomerase gene targeted analysis, is submitted to BMC Journal of Parasites & Vectors for publication

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