Rate My Professor Teshome Hambisa

Dr. Mitiku Teshome Hambisa is an epidemiologist and public health researcher associated with the University of Newcastle, School of Medicine and Public Health. He completed his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Newcastle in 2022, where he served as a research student. His PhD thesis, "Driving in later years of life and age-related vision changes among older Australian women: assessment of healthy ageing and healthcare utilisation using driving as an operational indicator of ageing well," analyzed data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health to investigate healthy ageing indicators, vision-related changes, and healthcare access. Hambisa's educational background includes a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Addis Ababa University in 2010, a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Jimma University in 2007, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Teaching from Haramaya University in 2017.

Prior to and alongside his doctoral studies, Dr. Hambisa held academic appointments at Haramaya University in Ethiopia, including lecturer in the School of Public Health from 2007 to 2010 and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology thereafter. His research interests focus on healthy ageing, healthy working life expectancies, chronic diseases, infectious diseases particularly HIV/AIDS, mother-to-child transmission prevention, and health services utilization. Proficient in advanced statistical methods such as longitudinal data analysis, generalized estimating equations, survival analysis, logistic regression, and software tools like SAS, SPSS, and EpiData, he has produced 22 peer-reviewed publications, including seven as first author, amassing over 6,400 citations with an h-index of 13 and i10-index of 16. Key works include "Determinants of Mortality among HIV Positives after Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Western Ethiopia: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study" (2013), "Substance use and associated factors among university students in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study" (2014), "Induced abortion and associated factors in health facilities of Guraghe zone, southern Ethiopia" (2014), "Application of Andersen–Newman model to assess cataract surgery uptake among older Australian women: findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health" (2022), and contributions to Global Burden of Disease studies such as "The burden and trend of diseases and their risk factors in Australia, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2023).