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School of Population Health
School of Population Health
Staff Profile

Dr Yohannes Kinfu

Position: Senior Research Fellow

Phone: + 61 7 336 55408

Fax: + 61 7 336 55442

Email: y.kinfu@uq.edu.au

 

Location: 428

Building: Public Health Building

Biography:

Dr. Yohannes Kinfu joined the School of Population Health as a Senior Research Fellow in mid-February. He joins the school from WHO (Geneva) where he was responsible for monitoring health-related millennium development goals (MDGs) and had managed WHO’s Statistical information System (WHOSIS) and the annual statistical publication on key health indicators, World Health Statistics, for WHO’s 193 Member States. Prior to that, Dr Yohannes worked as a teaching and research fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) and before that (and in between) he held similar positions in Ethiopia, Ghana and South Africa. Yohannes’ major interests are in the area of statistical and mathematical modelling of population processes and health outcomes. In the course of his career, he taught courses on forecasting and advanced demographic techniques, researched on a wide range of topics — including nutrition and poverty, fertility and migration, measurement of mortality and causes of death, inequity in health service coverage, health workforce dynamics and the demography of Indigenous Australians— and contributed to the World Health Report, WHO’s annual flagship publication on the state of the World’s health. Yohannes is a demographer by profession, with a PHD from ANU, MPhil and MA (with distinction) degrees from the University of Ghana and a Bachelor of Economics (with distinction) degree from the University of Asmara, Eritrea. Yohannes was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Research Interests:

  • International and Tropical Health
  • Mortality & Health Metrics

 

Publications

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  • Kinfu Y, Dal Poz MR, Mercer H, Evans DB. The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. 2009; 87:225–230.
  • Boerma J T, Bryce J, Kinfu Y, Axelson H, Victora C G. Mind the gap: equity and trends in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health services in 54 Countdown countries. Lancet. 2008 Apr; 371(9620):1259-1267.
  • Scheffler R M, Liu J X, Kinfu Y, Dal Poz M R. Forecasting the global shortage of physicians: an economic- and needs-based approach. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2008 Jul; 86(7):516-523.
  • Kinfu Y. Health inputs, health outputs and health outcome in South Africa: A stochastic frontier analyses. In: 5th African Population Conference; 2007 10-14 December 2007 Arusha, Tanzania.
  • Adjuik M, Smith T, Clark S, Todd J, Garrib A, Kinfu Y, et al. Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2006 Mar; 84(3):181-188.
  • Kinfu Y. Child mortality among Aboriginal Australians: Levels and determinants. In: Hunter BH, editor. Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes. Canberra. Australian National University E-Press; August 2006; View Publication
  • Kinfu Y. Indigenous migration: Differentials and determinants. In: Hunter BH, editor. Assessing Recent Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes. Canberra. Australian National University E-Press; August 2006; View Publication
  • Kinfu Y, Taylor J. On the components of indigenous population change. Australian Geographer. 2005 Jul; 36(2):233-255.
  • Kinfu Y, Taylor J. Spatial mobility among Indigenous Australians: Patterns and determinants. In: Demography & Sociology Program. Canberra. Australian National University; ; View Publication
  • Zhao A, Kinfu Y. Mortality Transition in East Asia. Journal of Asian Population Studies. 2005; 1(1):1-24.
  • Kinfu Y. Growing out of poverty: A multi-state analysis of the dynamics and determinants of Childhood poverty in Ethiopia. In: 28th general conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth; 2004 22-28 August 2004 Cork, Ireland.
  • Kinfu Y. Modelling Indigenous Inter-regional migration flows. In: 12th biennial conference of the Australian Population Association; 2004 15-17 September 2004 Canberra.
  • Kinfu Y. Modeling and forecasting Australian fertility: A parametric-time series approach. In: 11th biennial conference of the Australian Population Association; 2002 2 - 4 October, 2002 Sydney.
  • Mirza T, Kovacs GT, Kinfu Y. Serving Rural Australia with Reproductive Health Expertise. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 2001; 9(1):241-245.
  • Kinfu Y. Below Replacement Fertility in Tropical Africa? Some evidence from Addis Ababa. Journal of Population Research. 2000; 17(1):63-82.
  • Kinfu A Y. Child undernutrition in war-torn society: The Ethiopian experience. Journal of Biosocial Science. 1999; 31(3):403-418. View Publication
  • Kinfu Y. Correlates of nutritional status of under five children in southern Ethiopia. Journal of Development Research. 1999; 20(1):34-46.
  • Kinfu Y. Demographic Characteristics of poor households in Dire Dawa Town. Ethiopian Journal of Economics. 1995; XXIV(2):67-81.
  • Kinfu Y. Maternal education and child survival in Addis Ababa. Journal of Ethiopian Health Development. 1992; 6(1):11-17.

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