Box 1722, Hawassa,

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Daniel G. Datiko Place of birth: Gidole, Ethiopia Nationality: Ethiopian

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

With a background of General Medical Practitioner I have worked in health institutions under the Ministry of Health working with common medical problems in health centre and one of the oldest and biggest hospitals in the country, Yirgalem Hospital which provides comprehensive health services equivalent to Regional referral hospital. TB is one of the major public health problem addressed. I have also worked as TB Leprosy and Blindness Prevention and Control Programme coordinator for Southern Ethiopia with a population of about 15 million. In the programme I was responsible for training, planning, monitoring and evaluation of the programme. I have also worked with stakeholders and partners working related activities in capacity building and improving services. As a field director for TB REACH project Ethiopia, I have worked on project implementation in case finding and treatment outcome which is successful in identifying and treating more TB cases by involving community based health workers using mobile technology to identify suspects and sending smears for laboratory examination. Currently implementing project linking maternal health and TB to improve the HIMS in southern Ethiopia using HEWs.

EDUCATION

2011 PhD in Epidemiology, Highest Distinction, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway entitled Improving control in Ethiopia, performance of TB control programme, community- DOTS and its cost-effectiveness

1998 Doctor of , University Medical Faculty, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Other trainings

2015 Childhood TB for Healthcare Workers’: an online course developed by The Union and WHO https://childhoodtb.theunion.org/courses/Childhood%20TB%20for%20Healthcare%20Workers /certificate/

2004 Health Research Capacity Building Training Workshop, November 22 - December 01, 2004 organized by Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission in collaboration with Regional Health Bureau of southern Region , Yirgalem, Ethiopia 2003 Management Priorities for Eye Care Programme Managers organized by LAICO Indian and CO Tanzania, December 8 - 13, 2003

2003 Essentials of Leprosy and Tuberculosis for and Scientists, September 8 - 26,

All Leprosy and Rehabilitation Centre, Addis Ababa, WHO collaborating Centre, Ethiopia

2002 Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, Dec. 24 - Jan. 04, 2002, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

2002 Training on Health Management Information System, August 28 - 31, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

2000 HSR proposal Development Seminar, conducted in FIDS in collaboration with WHO/ESHE/JSI

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Ethiopia

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EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Date : from / to May 2013 up to date

Company REACH ETHIOPIA

Position Executive Director REACH ETHIOPIA, Consultant for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Description TB REACH Wave III scaling up Innovative community-based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

- Worked in close collaboration with Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureau in aligning the project with the National TB Programme priorities - Established partnership with zone government and health departments to implement the project in the respective zones covering population of 7.5 million - Established field offices, recruited field staffs and procured resources including motor bikes and office furniture - Organized familiarization and sensitization workshop in region, five zones and more than 50 districts including political administrators, health policy makers, health workers, religious institutions, schools, women development group and community health workers in addition to local and regional media for information dissemination - Provide training to community health extension workers, TB focal persons, Laboratory focal persons, district TB programme coordinators and zone TB programme managers - Developed tools for community-based TB care in the project sites - Participated in preparation and testing of Integrated Refresher Training for Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia - Standing member of technical working group for National Community-Based TB care in Ethiopia - Conducted continued supportive supervision to communities, health posts, health centers, hospitals, districts and zones to ensure successful implementation of TB prevention and control efforts - Conducted regular district, zone and regional review meeting of activities on monthly and quarterly basis - Participated in TB resource mobilization and distribution to the community and health facilities - Worked closely with TB REACH, WHO country office, Federal Ministry of Health to procure 5 GeneXpert machines and more than 5,000 cartridges to the project site - Ensured external quality assurance system in the project sites: collected slides for quality assurance from health centers and community - Closely worked with partners, LSTM and TB REACH o regular report of the project performance technical and financial - supported data quality assurance in the project and the region - participated and led external evaluation of the project by international consultant - Core coordinating committee and scientific chair for 9th TB Research Conference in Ethiopia : led review of more than 400 abstracts submitted for oral and poster presentation - Member of Global Fund Concept note writing for community based TB care which was successful to ensure incentive funding for the country to scale up innovative community based approaches to about 250 districts in three years from the current project implemented by our institution, REACH Ethiopia in southern Ethiopia - Member of Proposal review committee for TB REACH for two years - Supervise many Masters students working on TB research in Ethiopia - Supervise two PhD student from University of Bergen, working on community based TB care and related areas of research - Organized and led National Experience Sharing Meeting on performance of community-based intervention in southern region - Member of National Technical Working Group of TB and TB/HIV programme

Date : from / to 2010 up to April 2013

Company LSTM - TB REACH PROJECT ETHIOPIA

Position Field Director for TB REACH PROJECT ETHIOPIA, Consultant for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Description TB REACH Wave 1 entitled Innovative community-based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

- Introduced innovative community-based intervention to southern Ethiopia to improve case finding and treatment outcome - Worked in close collaboration with Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureau in aligning the project with the National TB Programme priorities - Established partnership with Sidama zone government and health departments to implement the project in the respective zones covering population of 3.5 million - Established field offices, recruited field staffs and procured resources including motor bikes and office furniture - Organized familiarization and sensitization workshop in region, Sidama zone and 19 rural and two town administration including political administrators, health policy makers, health workers, religious institutions, schools, women development group and community health workers in addition to local and regional media for information dissemination - Provide training to more than 500 community health extension workers, TB focal persons, Laboratory focal persons, district TB programme coordinators and zone TB programme managers - Developed tools for community-based TB care in the project sites - Participated in preparation and testing of Integrated Refresher Training for Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia - Standing member of technical working group for National Community-Based TB care in Ethiopia - Conducted continued supportive supervision to communities, health posts, health centers, hospitals, 19 rural districts and two town administration to ensure successful implementation of TB prevention and control efforts - Conducted regular monthly district, zone and regional review meeting of activities to measure the performance, identify gaps and provide future directions - Participated in TB resource mobilization and distribution to the community and health facilities in the implementation zone - Introduced Gene Xpert machine and LDED FM in the country’s TB programme - Worked with TB REACH, WHO country office and Ministry of Health to procure 19 LED FM, 2 Gene Xpert machines and more than 2,000 cartridges to the project sites - Ensured external quality assurance system in the project sites: collected slides for quality assurance from health centers and community - Closely worked with partners, LSTM and TB REACH o regular report of the project performance technical and financial - supported data quality assurance in the project and the region - participated and led external evaluation of the project by international consultant - Member of National TB programme review mission to the southern Ethiopia with international consultants - Led MDR and pediatric TB related projects under REACH Ethiopia to improve diagnosis of TB in children and support to maximum utilization of Gene Xpert machine to improve TB diagnosis and identify MDR TB cases to decentralize MDR services in southern Ethiopia - Lead National Consultant for Midterm evaluation of five-years HEAL TB/USAID project in Ethiopia: conducted field visit, data collection, discussion with partners and policy makers and write up of report

Date : from / to 2003 - 2010

Company Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia

Position TB Leprosy and Blindness Prevention and Control Programme Coordinator

Description I have worked as TB Leprosy and Blindness Prevention and Control Programme coordinator for Southern Ethiopia with a population of about 15 million; responsible for training, planning, monitoring and evaluation of the programme. I have also worked with stakeholders and partners working related activities in capacity building and improving services.

- Coordinated TB, Leprosy and Blindness prevention and control programme of southern regional of Ethiopia, about 13.5 million population in 13 zones and 8 special districts - Responsible for planning, resource mobilization, programme expansion and ensure successful implementation in the region - Provided training to TB focal persons for more than 450 health facilities, more than 115 districts and 13 zones - Conducted regular supportive supervision and ensured cascaded supervision form zones to districts and health facilities - Closely worked with pharmacy department to ensure provision of uninterrupted drugs and supplies to health facilities implementing TB programme - Decentralized TB programme to health Centre expanding to full coverage and pioneer in implementing community-based TB care in Ethiopia using Health Extension Workers - Conducted regular quarterly review meeting to monitor and evaluate the programme performance in the respective sites - Compile regional data, analyses and write report to Regional government and Federal Ministry of Health - Part of National TB programme review mission conducted in 2003 in southern Ethiopia - Worked in close collaboration with GLRA and KNCV to ensure better partnership and TB programme support from region to community - Ensured procurement of quality microscopy and distribution to health centers, distribution of laboratory reagents and external quality assurance for diagnostic units - Established four sub regional laboratories implementing two layer quality assurance which is pioneer in the country - Worked in close collaboration with Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureau in aligning the project with the National TB Programme priorities - Played role in revising National TB Leprosy Guideline for Ethiopia, 2012 edition

Date : from / to 2000 - 2003

Company Yirgalem Hospital, Sidama, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Position General Medical Practitioner, Assistant Medical Director

Description General Medical Practitioner providing general services to common medical conditions. As an assistant medical director I was involved in the general management of the hospital - Practicing medical practitioner in high volume hospital in Ethiopia - Major public health priorities including maternal, health TB and HIV - Worked in TB OPD for patients screening and ensuring their follow up in linking with districts and zone health departments - Ensured uninterrupted supply of drugs , laboratory reagents and supplies - Participated in external quality assurance for TB programme - Ensured quality assured diagnostics including AFB and chest radiography - Managed the general hospital health service delivery - Worked with Regional and zone government to ensure the capacity building and quality service delivery to the community - Board member of the hospital for decision making and directives - Planning and resource mobilization including for technical and budget - Complete reports, conduct data analysis and report to the regional government - Hosted medical students and other health training courses coordinated and supported successful training in the hospital - Worked with regional and international partners

Date : from / to 1999 - 2000

Company Darara Health Centre, Sidama, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Position General Medical Practitioner

Description Medical services team leader and involved in the community based activities linked to the communities around the health centre providing services to a population of more than 50 thousand population - led medical services to the community - ensured lining of community with the health centre: health centre e and community partnership - participated in ensuring public health service for disease prevention and control in rural settings - ensured quality diagnosis for TB by strengthening laboratory services - provided inpatient and DOT for TB patients diagnosed with TB - ensured external quality assurance system in the health centre - strengthened referral linkage for TB symptomatic and TB cases - decentralized DOT to the rural clinics - led the technical performance review team for data quality assurance and reporting to districts, zone and region

Workshop and conference presentations

National Experience Sharing Meeting for TB REACH Project in southern Ethiopia, august 29, 2015, Hawassa, Ethiopia, From innovation to scale up of innovative community-based approaches in Ethiopia

NEAT MDR TB, Barcelona, over view of TB REACH Project Ethiopia, 2013, kick off meeting NEAT MDR TB Barcelona April 21, 2013

38th Union World Conference on Lung Health, South Africa, 2007; Community and TB care: can it improve case detection and treatment success rate?

42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, France, 2011; Active case-finding through community workers in Ethiopia

How to integrate operational and implementation research into a National Tuberculosis Programme? Feb 2011, Bergen , Norway

6th TB Research Advisory Committee meeting and World TB day Gondar, 2011, Ethiopia: Mohammed A. Yassin, Daniel G. Datiko, Olivia Tulloch, Paulos Markos, Melkamsew Aschalew, Estifanos B. Shargie, Mesay H Dangisso, Ryuichi Komatsu, Suvanand Sahu, Lucie Blok, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald, Innovative community based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

8th TB Research Advisory Committee meeting and World TB day, Addis Ababa, 2013, Ethiopia Mohammed A. Yassin, Daniel G. Datiko, Olivia Tulloch, Paulos Markos, Melkamsew Aschalew, Estifanos B. Shargie, Mesay H Dangisso, Ryuichi Komatsu, Suvanand Sahu, Lucie Blok, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald, Innovative community based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

The World Bank, Washington DC http://sciencespeaksblog.org/2013/11/20/tb-briefing-embrace-risk-to-improve-case-detection/

3rd Global Health Systems Symposium, Theory of Change of using Ethiopian Health system as model, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 for REACH OUT CONSORTIUM

National and International awards

2011 University of Bergen, PhD with Highest Distinction

6th TB Research Annual Conference, Gondar, Ethiopia, Gold Medal

8th TB Research Annual Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Best Abstract Award http://lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/latest-news/2013/jan-june/gold-medal-for- ethiopia

November 28, 2014, lead institution that won Kochon prize 45th World Lung Health Conference http://www.stoptb.org/global/awards/kochon/awardees/2014.asp http://www.tbonline.info/posts/2014/10/29/reach-ethiopia-sets-bar-high-winner-years-stop-tb-/

Publications in peer reviewed journals

1. M. A. Yassin, D. G. Datiko, E. B. Shargie, Ten-year experiences of the tuberculosis control programme in the southern region of Ethiopia, Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2006; 10(10)9: 1166 -1171 2. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Luelseged T. Chekol, Lopisso E. Kabeto, Bernt Lindtjørn, The rate of TB HIV coinfection depends on the prevalence of HIV in the community BMC Public Health 2008, 8:266 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-266 3. Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2009) Health Extension Workers Improve Tuberculosis Case Detection and Treatment Success in Southern Ethiopia: A Community Randomized Trial. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5443. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005443 4. Daniel G. Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Tuberculosis recurrence in smear-positive patients cured under DOTS in southern Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study BMC Public Health 2009, 9:348 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-348 5. Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2010) Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Smear-Positive Tuberculosis by Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia: An Ancillary Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Community Randomized Trial. PLoS ONE 5(2): e9158. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009158 6. D. G. Datiko, B. Lindtjørn (2010): Mortality in successfully treated tuberculosis patients in southern Ethiopia: retrospective post-treatment follow-up study. Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2010; 14(7): 866 -871 7. Efrem Tefre, Meskele Lera, Sahle Sita, Zerihun Bogale, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Mohammed Ahmed Yassin, Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 2010; 24(3): 234 -238, Treatment outcome of children with severe acute admitted to therapeutic feeding centres in southern region of Ethiopia, brief communication

8. Mohammed A. Yassin, Daniel G. Datiko, Olivia Tulloch, Paulos Markos, Melkamsew Aschalew, Estifanos B. Shargie, Mesay H Dangisso, Ryuichi Komatsu, Suvanand Sahu, Lucie Blok, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald, Innovative community based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia PLoS One. 2013; 8(5): e63174.

9. Dangisso MH, Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2014) Trends of Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Ten-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis in Urban-Rural Settings. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114225. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114225

10. Woldesemayat EM, Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2015) Follow-Up of Chronic Coughers Improves Tuberculosis Case Finding: Results from a Community-Based Cohort Study in Southern Ethiopia. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0116324. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116324

11. Olivia Tulloch, Sally Theobald, Fukushi Morishita, Daniel G. Datiko, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jama, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas, Mohammed A. Yassin,: Patient and community experiences of tuberculosis diagnsosis and care within a community-based intervention in Ethiopia: a qualitative study BMC public health (2015)15:187 DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1523-x

12. Dangisso MH, Datiko DG, LindtjørnB (2015) Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia. PLoSONE10(6): e0126369.doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0126369

13. Solomon M. Abay, Kebede Deribe, Ayalu A. Reda, Sibhatu Baidgilign, Daniel Datiko, Tigist Assefa, Maja Todd, Amare Deribew, The effect of early initiation of antiretroviral therapy in TB/HIV co-infected patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2015, DOI: 10.1177/2325957415599210

14. Maryse C. Kok, Aschenaki Z. Kea, Daniel G. Datiko, Jacqueline E.W. Broerse, Marjolein Dieleman, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Olivia Tulloch, A qualitative assessment of health extension workers’ relationships with the community and health sector in Ethiopia: opportunities for enhancing maternal health performance, Human Resources for Health (2015) 13:80 DOI 10.1186/s12960- 015-0077-4

15. Mesay H. Dangissot, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Low case notification rates of childhood tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia, BMC Pediatrics (2015) 15:142 DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0461-1

16. Barbara McPake, Ijeoma Edoka, Sophie Witter, Karina Kielmann, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Marjolein Dieleman, Kelsey Vaughan, Elvis Gama, Maryse Kok, Daniel Datiko, Lillian Otiso, Rukhsana Ahmed, Neil Squires, Chutima Suraratdecha, Giorgio Cometto, Cost-effectiveness of community- based practitioner programmes in Ethiopia, Indonesia and Kenya, Bull World Health Organ 2015;93:631–639A | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.144899

17. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Olivia Tulloch, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jamal, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald: Exploring providers’ perspectives of a community based TB approach in Southern Ethiopia: implication for community based Approaches, BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:501 doi:10.1186/s12913

18. Mesay H. Dangissot, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn , Accessibility to tuberculosis control services and tuberculosis programme performance in southern Ethiopia, Glob Health Action 2015, 8: 29443 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.29443

19. Rachel M. Anderson de Cuevas, Lovett Lawson, Najla Al-Sonboli, Nasher Al-Aghbari, Isabel Arbide,Jeevan B. Sherchand, Emenyonu E. Nnamdi, Abraham Aseffa, Mohammed A. Yassin, Saddiq T. Abdurrahman, Joshua Obasanya, Oladimeji Olanrewaju, Daniel Datiko, Sally J. Theobald, Andrew Ramsay, S. Bertel Squire, Luis E. Cuevas, Patients direct costs to undergo TB Diagnosis, Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2016) 5:24, DOI 10.1186/s40249-016-0117-x 20. S. Theobald1, K. Hawkins, M. Kok, S. Rashid, D. G. Datiko, M. Taegtmeyer, Close-to-community providers of : increasing evidence of how to bridge community and health systems, Human Resources for Health (2016) 14:3, DOI 10.1186/s12960-016-0132-9

Papers in press

1. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Sally Theobald, Luis E. Cuevas, A community-based Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for prevention of childhood tuberculosis in Ethiopia, in press. 2. Endrias M. Woldesemayat, Daniel G. Datiko, Mesay H. Dangisso, Bernt Lindtjørn, Incidence of smear-positive tuberculosis among adults in Dale district, South Ethiopia, in press 3. Endrias M. Woldesemayat, Daniel G. Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Cost and cost- effectiveness of follow-up of chronic coughers in detecting smear-positive tuberculosis in Sidama zone, South Ethiopia, in press 4. Mesay H. Dangissot, Daniel G. Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Spatio-temporal variation of TB in rural communities in Southern Ethiopia, in press

Grants awarded

1. EDTCP Co-PI: A one-stop shop for the same day diagnosis and management of TB and HIV’ Stop HIV/TB at one

2. Co-PI: Spatial Analysis of Tuberculosis Clustering in Dale District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study

3. TB REACH CO-PI: Scaling up innovative community-based approaches to improve TB diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable and high risk population in southern Ethiopia 4. REACH OUT ETHIOPIA: PI for Ethiopia http://www.reachoutconsortium.org/partners/ http://www.reachoutconsortium.org/about/our-team#shz 5. NEAT MDR PI: Paving the way to clinical trials for the community-based treatment of MDR-TB through innovative approaches to screen and monitor patients with TB

6. Grand Challenge PI: Increasing the detection, confirmation and treatment of children with Tuberculosis in Ethiopia, http://www.grandchallenges.ca/stars-r4-grantees-en/ http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grantee-stars/0252-01/ 7. SEARCH PI: Applied research on Health Extension Workers using e-health to strengthen equitable health systems in Southern Ethiopia http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Social_and_Economic_Policy/Governance_for_Equity_in_Heal th_Systems/Pages/ProjectDetails.aspx?ProjectNumber=106229

8. ESRC co-PI: Making it happen: Increasing access to diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis in Ethiopia

Grants administered

1. TB REACH Wave I Year I: $689,163 Innovative community-based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia 2. TB REACH Wave I Year II: $654,721 Innovative community-based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

3. Grand Challenge: CAD $113,000 Increasing the detection, confirmation and treatment of children with Tuberculosis in Ethiopia 4. TB REACH: WIII YI: $ 725,939.20 Scaling up innovative community-based approaches to improve TB diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable and high risk population in southern Ethiopia 5. TB REACH:WIII YII: $710,716 Scaling up innovative community-based approaches to improve TB diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable and high risk population in southern Ethiopia 6. NEAT MDR : £52,000 Paving the way to clinical trials for the community-based treatment of MDR-TB through innovative approaches to screen and monitor patients with TB

Technical assistance

2016 developing guideline tools and mapping for targeted mass screening or TB in Zimbabwe 2012 vice board director for Local NGO working on improving prison

2009 Reviewed manuscripts for international journals

2005 Project evaluation of SAFE strategy of ORBIS INTERNATIONAL ETHIOPIA

2004 TB Prevention and Control in Prison, International Red Cross Society in Southern Nations,

Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

Teaching and Post-Graduate supervision

2003 Bedside teaching for Health Officers in surgical, gynaecologic and obstetric emergencies

2002 Medical Surgical, Infectious diseases Yirgalem School of

2002 Medial Surgical, Central Nervous System disorders, Yirgalem School of Nursing

2001 Paediatric disorders for mid-wives, Awassa Nursing School

Courses and workshops organized

2015 National Experience sharing meeting for innovative community-based approaches in southern region, Hawassa, Ethiopia

2013 Organized familiarization and sensitization workshop on scaling up innovative community based approaches in southern Ethiopia for political leaders, policy makers, health programme managers, community leaded and key informants

2010 Organized training of field supervisors, TB focal persons and HES on innovative approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia

2007 Provider Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing training for General Health Workers

in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

2005 TB Leprosy Prevention and Control Programme training of trainers for programme

managers in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

2005 TB Leprosy Prevention and Control Programme training of General Health Workers

in Southern Nations, Nationalities and peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

Others seminars

2007 Public-Private Mix in TB control in southern Ethiopia 2005 TB Epidemiology in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

2005 TB HIV Epidemiology in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

2004 TB Leprosy prevention and control programme

Scientific and administrative responsibilities

2015 The Global Plan to End TB, The Paradigm Shift, 2016 - 2020 contributed

2015 Reviewed manuscripts for World Lung Health Conference, 2015 Cape Town, South Africa

2013 Supervised MPH students from University of Hawassa

2013 Reviewed many manuscripts submitted to International journals

2013 Founder and Executive Director of REACH Ethiopia

2012 Member of Proposal Review Committee for Stop TB Department, TB REACH

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2011 Member of Technical Working Group for TB HIV in southern Ethiopia

2010 Consultant for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

2010 Co-supervise two PhD candidates from University of Bergen,

http://www.uib.no/en/cih/66978/tuberculosis-research-ethiopia

2006 Student Representative in Centre for International Health, University of Bergen

2006 Member of the National Prevention of Blindness Committee, Ethiopia

2006 Secretary of Prevention of Blindness Committee for southern Ethiopia, Awassa, Ethiopia

2005 Member of Ethiopian Public Health Association

2005 Tuberculosis and Leprosy Prevention and Control Programme, Federal Ministry of Health of

Ethiopia, 2005. Contributed as a team member of the National Guideline development,

2002, 2nd edition

Delegates, visitors, documents and e-medias

Results Canada leads Parliamentarian delegates to Ethiopia http://www.results-resultats.ca/en/2014/09/how-to-get-a-zero-default-rate-on-tb-treatment/ Results UK leads Parliamentary delegates to Ethiopia: http://blog.results.org.uk/2013/03/01/results-uk-leads-delegation-to-ethiopia/

UK parliamentarians visit Ethiopia-LSTM TB REACH Project in Awassa, Ethiopia: http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/news-and-media/latest-news/uk- parliamentarians-visit

University of Bergen: press release http://www.uib.no/info/dr_grad/2011/Datiko_DanielGemechu.html

PhD Thesis: Improving TB control in Ethiopia http://bernt.b.uib.no/files/2011/01/Daniel-Datiko-PhD-thesis-2011.pdf

Consultancy

2006 TB consultant for World Health Organization, human resource development training, and review meetings

2014 USAID/ETHIOPIA: HELP ETHIOPIA ADDRESS THE LOW TB PERFORMANCE (HEAL-TB) MID

TERM EVALUATION

Blogs

Capacity building, CCPH fed back

Gender related blog http://www.reachoutconsortium.org/news/international-women-s-day-2015-celebrating-women-s- role-in-the-promotion-of-primary-healthcare-in-ethiopia/

Engaging the Community to Reach, Treat and Cure Tuberculosis http://www.heart-resources.org/blog/engaging-the-community-to-reach-treat-and-cure- tuberculosis

Mass media and other social medias

Gender related blog http://www.reachoutconsortium.org/news/international-women-s-day-2015-celebrating-women-s- role-in-the-promotion-of-primary-healthcare-in-ethiopia/

Engaging the Community to Reach, Treat and Cure Tuberculosis http://www.heart-resources.org/blog/engaging-the-community-to-reach-treat-and-cure- tuberculosis

SNNP communication and public relations

Live streaming on TB and live question and answers from the public