Dr Yohannes Melaku
Senior Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
+61 8 74219746
place
Bedford Park
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia
Yohannes is NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and an early-career researcher in nutritional and sleep epidemiology at Flinders University. His research focuses on diet, sleep and disease outcomes. He uses big datasets from Australia, China, the United Kingdom and the United States and applies advanced and novel statistical and epidemiological tools.
Qualifications
Ph.D, Medicine/Nutritional Epidemiology | MPH, Nutrition | MPH, General | BSc., Public Health
Honours, awards and grants
- Best Young Researcher of the Year, Mekelle University, Ethiopia (2013/2014)
- Australian International Postgraduate Rsearch Scholarship, Australia (2015-2018)
- Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, The University of Adelaide (2018)
Key responsibilities
Research
Teaching interests
- Nutritional epidemiology
- Sleep epidemiology
- Global health
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
Supervisory interests
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
General nutrition in health
Sleep
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Associate supervisor:
Nutritonal Epidemiology (1)
Professional engagement
- Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) since August 2019
- Member of Australasia Epidemiological Association since August 2018
- Member of Nutrition Society of Australia since September 2016
- Life time member of Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) since 2009
- Member of Food and Nutrition Society of Ethiopia (FoNSE) since April 2014
- Member of Global Burden of Disease Expert Group since 2013
- Founder and subtheme (non-communicable disease and risk factors) leader of Ethiopian National Burden of Disease (E_NBD) Expert Team since September 2016
Expert for media contact
Epidemiology
Nutrition
Available for contact via
+61 8 74219746
Or contact the media team
Media expertise
- Epidemiology
- Nutrition
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