Dr. Tesfa D. Habtewold

Dr. Tesfa D. Habtewold is an Epidemiologist with over four years of
experience in health research design, big data analytics, and
project leadership. He also has six years of experience in research
and teaching in nursing at various universities and colleges.
Currently, Dr. Habtewold is a Visiting Research Scholar at the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the
United States (US) National Institutes of Health (NIH).Dr.
Habtewold conducts research on the interplay of genomics, epigenomics,transcriptomics, metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers, and exposomes in the life
course development of cardiometabolic and psychiatric disorders.

In his previous role
as a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University, Netherlands, Dr. Habtewold’s
work focused on developing a data-driven decision-making model to select personalized
treatment for patients with depression in the Netherlands. His primary tasks include
designing epidemiological studies, data analysis, presenting findings at (inter)national
conferences, and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Habtewold performed
multidimensional data analyses using R, Python, SAS, and STATA in both Windows and
Unix operating systems.
Dr. Habtewold has extensive experience in project design and management, big data
analysis, and publishing science. Much of Dr. Habtewold’s work is aimed at
investigating the epidemiology and risk factors of psychiatric and cardiometabolic
disorders. He has also published on several other research topics, including infant and
child nutrition, maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, TB and HIV, healthcare
service utilization and satisfaction, and trauma. Further, Dr. Habtewold’s work targets
improving the methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews and meta-
analyses. With over 70 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Habtewold has demonstrated a
strong ability to deliver impactful outcomes to the field of Epidemiology and Public
Health.
Dr. Habtewold earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology (Concentration: Clinical and Genetic
Epidemiology) from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, in 2021. Dr. Habtewold
conducted deep clinical phenotyping of schizophrenia spectrum disorders using data-
driven methods and investigated cardiometabolic comorbidities by leveraging 10-year
longitudinal family-based cohort data. Dr. Habtewold also holds a master’s degree in
Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology from the University of Groningen, Netherlands,
a master’s degree in Adult Health Nursing from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a
bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Hawassa University, Ethiopia.
More information about Dr. Habtewold is available at www.tesfahabtewold.com.