Meron Kifle
Eritrea
International Health and Tropical Medicine (MSc)
Keble College, Oxford
Funding: Oxford-Hoffmann and GRoW @ Annenberg
Meron is a Global Health Researcher, involved in Covid-19 Epidemiologic research with a focus on his region.
Before Oxford Meron spent 2 years as a District Public Health Officer before becoming a Graduate Assistant in the School of Public Health. He led a study on health-related quality of life among people living with HIV and another on contraceptive access in HIV positive women. He was the Chairman of Environmental Health Committee and a supervisor of community-based activities at Asmara College of Health Sciences.
“My experience in Oxford and WHT has opened up for many opportunities through consolidation of new critical skills needed in my field of study, seeding a network of professional connections from visionary students and accomplished faculty to the confidence that I now have that everything is possible if you give what it takes.”