Professor Mirkuzie Woldie Kerie

Professor Woldie is a health policy and management specialist with 20 years of experience as a researcher, educator, and policy advisor in public health and health policy and systems management.

He has led several health policy and systems research projects focusing on community health systems, maternal and child health service quality and utilization, health equity, and quality of health services. He is a Health Policy and Systems Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Health-Ethiopia.

Professor Woldie is also the Deputy Director for Evidence to Policy workstream of the Fenot Project of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health based in Addis Ababa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Systems at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia; Wolita Sodo University, Ethiopia; and Jimma University, Ethiopia.

In terms of short-term assignments, Professor Woldie worked as the lead consultant for the Ethiopian Case Study on Primary Health Care (PHC) financing for the Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing PHC in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), led by Principal Investigator Professor Kara Hanson at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), from November 2021 to March 2022. He was also the lead consultant for the development of the 10-year national strategic plan for Public Health Emergency Management in Ethiopia, from June 2020 to October 2020. This project was for the Ministry of Health Ethiopia, with financial and technical support from DFID through Oxford Management Policy (OPM).

In 2017, Professor Woldie worked as a co-Principal Investigator for the team that prepared the Primary Health Care Systems (PRIMASYS): case study from Ethiopia for the World Health Organization in Geneva. He also served as the lead consultant for the development of guidelines for quality improvement in family planning services in health posts of Jimma Zone and East Wollega zones for Amref Health Africa, from June to December 2016. Moreover, he led the baseline assessment of the use of Family Planning and Reproductive Health services among populations of Jimma and Illubabor Zones for Amref Health Africa, from April to December 2015.