Solomon Memirie

I am a Medical Doctor with specialization in Pediatrics and Child Health from Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia and have a PhD in Public Health/Health Economics from the University of Bergen. In 2016-2017, I was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I have over 25 years of experience as a clinician and public health specialist, and held various positions in governmental institutes, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, in Ethiopia. I am a health system researcher with additional clinical and academic experience as a lecturer to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the School of Medicine at AAU. Currently, I am working as the director of Addis Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, AAU. My main research focus is health economics and priority-setting and examining the cost and cost-effectiveness of health interventions in Ethiopia. Some of my Ethiopian studies have included: assessment of household out-of-pocket expenditures and associated impoverishment for vaccine preventable diseases, cost-effectiveness analyses of maternal and child health interventions, cost-effectiveness analyses of introducing the birth doses of hepatitis B- vaccine into the expanded immunization program in Ethiopia, extended cost-effectiveness analysis of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines, analyses of inequality in health services utilization, and estimating the burden of cancers in Ethiopia. I have also co-authored many publications related to economic evaluations and health systems in Ethiopia.

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