Dr Hailay Abrha Gesesew

Hailay is a Public Health Specialist. His research area of interest is around HIV care. He has also a particular interest in social determinants of health, traditional health practices and One Health approach. In addition, He has methodological expertise in mixed methods approach.

Hailay has substantial experience in performing and managing quantitative and qualitative research projects including: writing proposal, managing a research team (office, fieldwork), recruiting study participants, collecting, synthesizing and analyzing data, and disseminating data through official reports, policy briefs, conferences and peer reviewed publications.

For his quantitative projects, Hailay has used the following designs: cross-sectional, case control, cohort and cluster randomized trial studies; and analyses techniques: descriptive analyses, ANOVA, linear regression, logistic regression (binary, multinomial and complex), cox regression, meta-analysis, non-parametric tests and conjoint analysis, using SPSS, STATA and EpiData.

For his qualitative projects, he has used semi-structured, in-depth interviews and nominal group techniques; and analysed using thematic framework analyses and content analysis, using NVivo software.