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Girmay Medhin

Girmay Medhin

Name: Girmay

Father’s name:  Medhin

Grad father’s name: Tesfay

Education attended

  • BSc in Statistics (with gold medal from the Faculty of Science), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, July 1988
  • MSc in Applied Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, July 1992
  • Graduate Diploma in Medical Statistics, University of Newcastle, Australia, May 1997
  • MSc in Medical Statistics, University of  Newcastle, Australia, May 1998
  • PhD in Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College of London, UK, May 2011

Academic rank: Associate Professor since April 9, 2002

Working for AAU: Since September 11, 1992

Administrative positions held:

  • Acting Director of Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology  August 2000 to September 2001
  • Deputy Director of Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Jan 2002 – Feb 2005.

Membership: Editorial Board Member of the Ethiopian Medical Journal

Address:       
Campus: Technology South
Building: Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology
Floor number: Ground
Office tel.: +251112763091
Mobile: +251911834982
University email ID: girmay.medhin@aau.edu.et
Alternative email ID: gtmedhin@yahoo.com

Research interest:

The epidemiology of mental illness, factors that double burden mentally ill individuals, and mechanisms that enable smooth delivery of mental health service to the needy with minimal cost to the provider and to the recipient; the application of mixed effects modeling and structural equation modeling to understand research data collected in relation to infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and toxoplasmosis as well as epidemiological and health service data collected in the field of mental health

Publications in reputable journals:

1. Qadir F., Khalid A., Haqqani S., Huma E-Z., and Medhin G. (2013). The association of marital relationship and perceived social support with mental health of women in Pakistan. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:1150.

2. Fekadu A, Mesfin M, Medhin G, Alem A, Teferra S, Gebre-Eyesus T, Seboxa T, Assefa A, Hussien J, Lemma MT, Borba C, Henderson DC, Hanlon C, Shibre T. (2013). Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): Study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial. Trials. Nov 27;14(1):406.

3. Tsigebrhan R, Shibre T, Medhin G, Fekadu A, Hanlon C. (2013). Violence and violent victimization in people with severe mental illness in a rural low-income country setting: A comparative cross-sectional community study.  Schizophr Res.  Nov 22. pii: S0920-9964(13)00582-3. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.10.032.

4. Adewuya AO, Hanlon C, Medhin G, Dewey M, Alem A, Worku B, Prince M. (2013). Perinatal common mental disorders and child survival in Ethiopia. J Paediatr Child Health. Oct 30. doi: 10.1111/jpc.12411

5. Ameni G, Tadesse K, Hailu E, Deresse Y, Medhin G, Aseffa A, Hewinson G, Vordermeier M, Berg S. (2013). Transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis between farmers and cattle in central Ethiopia. PLoS One.  Oct 10; 8(10):e76891