Zemichael Gizaw Workneh, a PhD fellow supported by the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) through the One Health Eastern Africa Research Training (OHEART) Program, successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Fecal indicator bacteria along multiple environmental transmission pathways (water, food, hands, and soil), intestinal parasites, environmental enteric dysfunction, and linear growth faltering among children in the rural northwest Ethiopia” at the University of Gondar.
As an OHEART fellow, Workneh worked with his Ohio State faculty mentors in the College of Public Health: Michael Bisesi, vice dean for academic affairs and academic administration, professor and interim chair, and Jiyoung Lee, professor.
OHEART is supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health John E. Fogarty International Center Global Infectious Diseases program. The project aims to build research capacity at four eastern African academic institutes located in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania through long- and short-term training in foodborne, waterborne and vector-borne diseases.