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Adamu Addissie is a medical doctor, epidemiologist and bioethicist. He received his M.D. degree from Jimma University (Ethiopia); an M.P.H. from Addis Ababa University (AAU, Ethiopia); an M.A. in bioethics from the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and Padua (Italy); and a Ph.D. from Brighton and Sussex Medical School (UK).

He is an associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at AAU’s College of Health Sciences (CHS).

Dr Addissie has over 20 years of professional experience as a clinician, medical director, researcher and academician. He is the founding chair of the NCD and Cancer Working Group at AAU, where he oversees a number of multidisciplinary research activities on major cancers in Ethiopia, mentors doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows, and provides policy-level evidence to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health.

He is also the board chair of the IRB at AAU-CHS and Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development (EJHD).