Dr. Alemayehu Amberbir is a medical epidemiologist with over 16 years of experience in both academia and field research settings in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, and the UK. Dr. Amberbir trained as a primary healthcare practitioner and holds a Master of Public Health from Jimma University in Ethiopia, as well as a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of Nottingham, UK. Dr. Amberbir is Chair of the Center for Population Health at the University of Global Health Equity based in Rwanda.

Before joining UGHE, Dr. Amberbir was Science Director at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), based at Partners in Hope in Malawi. Previously, Dr. Amberbir worked as a senior scientist and epidemiologist at Dignitas International in Malawi and was involved in various implementation research efforts and knowledge translation (KT) activities, including a research program on integrated non-communicable disease and HIV care service delivery. Dr. Amberbir has also worked as an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Before he joined LSHTM, Dr. Amberbir was a Lecturer in Epidemiology at Jimma University and at the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, where he contributed to the MPH postgraduate training program and clinical speciality students.

Dr. Amberbir was the 2018/2019 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR); Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) and held an Adjunct Lecturer position at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada. He is a Faculty at The Pan African Thoracic Society – Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical and Operations Research (PATS-MECOR) Programme. Dr. Amberbir has published over 70 papers, mostly in high-impact peer-reviewed international medical journals. He continues to mentor junior research investigators from Africa and beyond.