Former Fellow (Deceased)
Workenesh Ayele obtained a PhD degree (Virology) from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2014 she has served as Director of Research and Compliance at ECUSTA Higher Learning Institute in Addis Ababa. She began her career at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas, USA) as a research assistant and later joined the former Pasteur Institute in Addis Ababa working as a laboratory scientist in the virology research team. She was the principal scientist involved in establishing the national laboratory for influenza and other emerging/re-emerging epidemic-prone viral infections. She has served on a number of key national technical advisory committees and taskforces supporting the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology. She is a member of several professional associations and served as secretary of the executive committee of the Society of Ethiopian Women in Science and Technology. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Ethiopian Medical Journal and as editorial consultant for the Ethiopian Journal of Laboratory Medicine. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals