Desalegn Tegabu Zegeye
Associate Professor
Health Informatics
Gondwana University
Ethiopia
Biography
Dr Desalegn is Chief Executive Officer of the University of Gondar Hospital and an associate professor in the Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Gondar (Ethiopia). He graduated in Medicine at University of Gondar and did Masters in Public health (health Information Systems) at the University of Western Cape (South Africa) and another master in Bioethics at a consortium of three European Universities namely Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Radboud University (Netherlands) and Padova University (Italy). He teaches Epidemiology, Research Methods and Health Informatics courses to different categories of health sciences students and mentor research work of both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Research Interest
Design, development and implementation of Health information system, Reproductive health and quality of life
Publications
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Yalew E, Zegeye D, Meseret S: Patterns of condom use and associated factors among adult HIV positive clients in North Western Ethiopia: a comparative cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2012, 12(1):308
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Zegeye D, Asres G, Gebreselassie S. Patient and Health Service Delay in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary tuberculosis: Situation at a teaching and referral hospital in Northwest Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences. 2012;4(1)
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Woreta SA, Kebede Y, Zegeye DT. Knowledge and utilization of information communication technology (ICT) among health science students at the University of Gondar, North Western Ethiopia. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013;13:31.
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Amare B, Ali J, Moges B, et al. Nutritional status, intestinal parasite infection and allergy among school children in northwest Ethiopia. BMC Pediatr. 2013;13:7.
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Berhe N, Tegabu D, Alemayehu M. Effect of nutritional factors on adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected adults: a case control study in Northern Ethiopia. BMC Infect Dis. May 23 2013;13(1):233.
