1. Biographical Data

Name: Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh 

Date of Birth:  June 06, 1985 

Nationality:  Ethiopian 

Gender:  Female 

Marital status: Married (with three children)

Email: fantshnibret@gmail.com 

Phone: +251977439028 

Address: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 

Google scholar:  https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=-YBj8KwAAAAJ&hl=en  

2. Educational Background

3. Research Interest 

Dietary pattern and non-communicable disease, maternal infant and child nutrition 

Work Experience 

2007- 2008: Data collection supervisor in Ethiopian public health institute, on women’s and children health 

2012-2018: Research assistance in school of public health, Taipei medical university Taiwan. 

2019-Current: Assistant Professor (Food Science and Nutrition) and research coordinator in Bahir Dar food science and nutrition research centre, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

2023: Member of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages with Gender Bias Detection and Mitigation: English-Amharic-Ge’ez-Awign

2023: Co-PI Evaluation of National Information Platform for Nutrition (NiPN) Project

Course delivered: Nutritional Epidemiology, Research Methods in Applied Human Nutrition Maternal Infant, Child Nutrition for MSc Students in Applied Human Nutrition program and Seminar in Applied Human Nutrition.

Short Trainings Attended

• Online Technology for learning and Virtual facilitation skills training, organized by Jhpiego Ethiopia (2020).
• Training on qualitative research methodology, systematic review and meta-analysis organized by Bahir Dar food and nutrition research centre (2022).
• Research ethics training organized by the minister of education (MoE) (2022)  
• Grant writing training organize by academic without border(2021)
• Research ethics training organized by Bahir Dar University (2023). Training on food safety management system organized by institute of Ethiopian standards (2023)
• Training on auditing management system organized by Bahir Dar food and nutrition research centre (2024). 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

1. Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh* and Bedilu Ejigu (2023). International Journal of Hypertension. The link between overweight/obesity and Non-communicable Diseases in Ethiopia: Evidences from Nationwide WHO STEPS Survey 2015
2. Hiwot Fentie, Peter A.MN, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh* (2023). BMC Cancer. Dietary pattern and other factors of breast cancer among women: a case control study in Northwest Ethiopia.
3. Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh *, Peter Austin Morton Ntenda and Tinebeb Tamir (2023). BMC women’s health. The association of intimate partner violence and decision making power on nutritional status of married women in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effect analysis
4. Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh* , Degnet Teferi Asres, Mesfin Wogayehu Tenagashaw and Hirut Assaye  (2021). BMC public health. Decision-making autonomy of women and other factors of anemia among married women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of a countrywide survey
5.  Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Mesfin Wogayehu Tenagashaw, Degnet Teferi Asres and Hirut Assaye Cherie (2021).BMC Archive of public health. Associations of early marriage and early childbearing with anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of nationwide survey, 79(91),
6.  Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Kun-Yang Chuang, Peter Austin Morton Ntenda and Ying-Chih Chuang (2017). Individual-level and community-level determinants of cervical cancer screening among Kenyan women: a multilevel analysis of a Nationwide survey. BMC women's health, 17(1), 109.
7. Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Kun-Yang Chuang and Ying-Chih Chuang (2017). Women’s autonomy and maternal healthcare service utilization in Ethiopia. BMC health services research, 17(1), 718.
8.  Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Kun-Yang Chuang, Peter Austin Morton Ntenda and Ying-Chih Chuang (2017). Unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy loss, and other risk factors for intimate partner violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Women & health, 1-18.
9.  Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Kun-Yang Chuang, Peter A. M. Ntenda, MSc,and Ying-Chih Chuang (2015)“Factors Associated With Contraceptive Use and Intention to Use Contraceptives among Married Women in Ethiopia” journal of Taylor & Francis women and health journal
10. Andy Bauleni, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh,et.al (2022).  Effects of deworming medication on anaemia among children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa volume. Parasites & Vectors 15(1) 1-14.
11. Peter Austin Morton Ntenda, Walaa Mamdouh Reyad El-Meidany, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh et.al (2022). Determinants of self-reported hypertension among women in South Africa: evidence from the population-based survey. Journal of Clinical Hypertension 28(1)1-14
12.  Ntenda, Peter Austin Morton, Kun-Yang Chuang, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, and Ying-Chih Chuang (2014). Factors Associated with Infant Mortality in Malawi. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Medicine, 6, 125-131.
13. Ntenda, Peter Austin Morton, Kun-Yang Chuang, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, and Ying-Chih Chuang (2017). "Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Individual-and Community-Level Factors on Childhood Anemia, Severe Anemia, and Hemoglobin Concentration in Malawi." Journal of tropical pediatrics.
14.  Ntenda, Peter Austin Morton, Kun-Yang Chuang, Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, and Ying-Chih Chuang (2017) "Analysis of the effects of individual and community level factors on childhood immunization in Malawi." Vaccine 35, no. 15: 1907-1917.

Reference

1. Prof. Ying-Chih Chuang: School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University 250 Wu- Hsing St. Taipei City 110, Taiwan.  Email: yingchih@tmu.edu.tw  
2. Dr.Mesfin Wogayehu Tenagashaw: Department of applied nutrition, Bahir Dar institute of technology,  Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia  Email: mesfintenagashaw07@gmail.com Mobile: +251911319136
3. Dr. Hirut Assaye Cherie :Department of applied nutrition, Bahir Dar institute of technology,  Bahir Dar University | Bahir Dar | Ethiopia Email: hirutas2000@gmail.com Mobile: +251984929946