Dr. Wuleta Lemma is Director of Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE), School of Public
Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University USA. She is a Tropical Medicine expert
working for the last 25 years mostly on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, MNCH and Communicable
Diseases. In the last number of years, Dr. Lemma has been involved in Health projects in more
than 20 countries in Africa, The Caribbean and Europe. During the past couple years, She had
conducted research/evaluations on endemic health problems, Human Resource for Health
(HRH), Innovative Medical Education, Behavioral Surveillance on high risk populations in a
number of countries; contributed to research on Health outcomes of countries of the Horn of
Africa and Health System Strengthen in Ethiopia. Currently, Dr. Lemma leads one of the largest
project at the Center, collaborate work with Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia (FMOH) and
The US Center for Disease Control. Dr. Lemma was instrumental for starting the 1st MSc
program in M&E of Health Programs at Jimma University, Ethiopia in collaboration with experts
from ESNP-FIOCRUZ Brazil. The course the 1st of its kind in Africa is geared to build local
capacity in evidence based policy making and 1st Biostatistics / Health informatics MSc program
at Mekele University again the first combine graduate course in Africa. To date more than 180
Master students have graduated from theses programs. Dr. Lemma led a team from Tulane to
support FMOH in the development of Human Resource Strategy-20/20. For the last number of
years, Dr. Lemma has been working with the Ministries of Health and Education of Ethiopia to
design and implement an “innovative four year medical curriculum”.
In the last couple of years, Dr. Lemma has been leading the design and deployment of e-and
mhealth solutions to improve health monitoring and patient care in resource limited settings. The
various solutions ( EMR, EHMIS/PHEM, HRIS, mHealth for Disease Surveillance, eCHHIS etc)
have been implemented in more than 2500 health institutions. Dr. Lemma also teaches and
advises Masters and PhD students