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Dr Solomon Woldeyohannes is a Research Fellow in Renal Medicine at the School of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science, Monash University. Solomon investigates "The issues around inequities in access to chronic kidney diseases (CKD) services" including transplantation and dialysis. He also seeks to investigate the role of other co-morbidities and outcomes of treatment with nations wide linked data from Australia and New Zealand. 

Dr Woldeyohannes graduated in 2019 with a PhD in Public Health Epidemiology from the University of Queensland. Following graduation, Dr Woldeyohannes was appointed as Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, which provided him with extensive experience in a wide range of statistical methods in the context of diverse applied problems in health.

As postdoctoral researcher he provided biostatistical and epidemiological services to staff and RHD students. His services included designing experimental and observational studies, basic and advanced statistical analysis, and statistical modelling of health outcomes. In addition, he taught linear regression and measures of disease frequency contents for undergraduate veterinary students and served as associate supervisor for RHD students.

Research interests

1. Designing Health Researches - Experimental and Observational

2. Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models -GLMMs

3. Bayesian Latent Class Models (BLCMs) in daignostic test accuracy 

4. Meta - Analysis 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Education/Academic qualification

Public Health, PhD, The epidemiology of Q fever in Queensland, Australia and effectiveness of vaccination for prevention, University of Queensland

24 Oct 201524 Jun 2019

Award Date: 24 Jun 2019

Public Health, MPH, University of Gondar

Oct 200729 Sept 2009

Award Date: 29 Sept 2009

Statistics, BSc, Hawassa University

20022006

Award Date: 12 Jul 2006

External positions

Honorary Fellow, University of Queensland

1 Oct 202230 Oct 2025

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