Yohannes KINFU

Dr. Yohannes Kinfu is an economist and demographer by training, and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health, University of Canberra.  He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, and Honorary Fellow with the Centre for Adolescent Health at Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. In addition, Yohannes is a member of the Scientific Council of the Global Burden of Disease Study and serves on advisory panel at the WIN Founation, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, India.

In the course of his career, which spans across three continents (Africa, Australia and Europe), he has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland (UQ) 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 and Leader of the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NUHDSS) at the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Yohannes also taught under-graduate and graduate students in Australia, Ghana and Ethiopia, and held other academic and consultancy positions in the UK, Namibia, Sudan, Laos and South Africa.

Research Interests

Yohannes’ research interests are in health demography and medical economics, particulalry in modelling population processes, health outcomes and health inputs in global context. 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.