Yohannes KINFU

Dr. Yohannes Kinfu is an economist and a demographer by training. In the course of his career, which spans over 10 years of post-doctoral experience across three continents, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia and prior to that he worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. And before that he was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. He also served as Head of the Urbanization and Wellbeing Research Program at the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was also the Leader of the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NUHDSS). Dr Kinfu is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader for the Burden of Disease Modelling and costs research theme at the Centre for Research and Action in Public Health, University of Canberra. He is also a member of the Global Burden of Disease Expert Group at IHME, University of Washington, and holds an Adjunct position at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University.

Research Interests

Yohannes’ research interests are in medical economics and in statistical and health demography, particularly in the statistical and mathematical modeling of population processes, health inputs and outcomes. He has published widely in a range of topics including nutrition, population dynamics, measurement of mortality and causes of death, health service coverage, health system efficiency and performance measurement, health workforce dynamics, health information system and monitoring of health programs. Yohannes also taught under-graduate and graduate students in Australia, Ghana and Ethiopia, and held other academic and consultancy positions in Namibia, Sudan and South Africa.