Daniel Gemechu Datiko
Daniel Gemechu Datiko
Chief of Party, USAID Eliminate TB Project, Ethiopia
Dr. Daniel Gemechu Datiko has more than 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing public health programs and community-based health interventions related to blindness prevention, leprosy, HIV, maternal health, digital health, and tuberculosis. Dr. Datiko previously served as the project director for Challenge TB Ethiopia within MSH-supported regions. He has served as a consultant for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine UK on designing and implementing community-based TB interventions; for the Stop TB Department in Cambodia where he designed private-sector engagement in TB; served as proposal review committee member for the Stop TB Department, and for the World Health Organization in Zimbabwe where he designed and wrote guidelines for targeted mass screening for TB in Zimbabwe. Dr. Datiko has served as leadership at regional and national levels, worked in local organization capacity building, received and managed grants from international donors, contributed to capacity building by supervising postgraduate students, and published more than 50 articles in peer reviewed journals, shared experiences in national and international forums and received national and international awards related to work on tuberculosis. Dr. Datiko began his career as a general medical practitioner in rural communities and has worked closely with the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia throughout his career, including coordination of the TB, Leprosy and Blindness Prevention and Control Program for the Southern region of Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in epidemiology and international health from the University of Bergen, Norway. He is passionate about reaching out and serving to better the lives of disadvantaged populations around the world.