Muluemebet Abera Wordofa

Research interest:
My research interest mainly focusing on range of public health and clinical research with special focus on the following area :- Reproductive Health with special emphasis on Maternal and Child health, adolescent health service use, nutritional status And the determinant factors for service use; Health system research with emphasis on service quality, health information system, and data for decision at the lower level ; And implementation of priority health interventions for the improvement of maternal child health like maternity waiting area intervention, skill training of Health extension workers for better health service provision which contribute in the reduction of maternal newborn and child death.
Publications: I have been working in different research projects as PI and co-PI funded by national and international organizations. Coauthored more than 25 peer reviewed articles.
Selected Publications:

1. Mariame Ouedraogo , Jaameeta Kurji , Lakew Abebe , Ronald Labonté , Sudhakar Morankar; Kunuz Haji Bedru , Gebeyehu Bulcha , Muluemebet Abera, Beth K. Potter , Marie-Hélène Roy-Gagnon1 and Manisha A. Kulkarni. Utilization of key preventive measures for pregnancy complications and malaria among women in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. BMC Public Health (2019) 19:1443 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7727-8
2. Mamo A, Morankar S, Asfaw S, Bergen N, Kulkarni MA, Abebe L, et al. How do community health actors explain their roles ? Exploring the roles of community health actors in promoting maternal health services in rural Ethiopia. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019;7(24).
3. Kurji, J., Kulkarni, M.A., Gebretsadik, L.A. Wordofa M.A et al. Effectiveness of upgraded maternity waiting homes and local leader training in improving institutional births among women in the Jimma zone, Ethiopia: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Trials 20, 671 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3755-z
4. Kurji J, Gebretsadik LA, Wordofa MA, et al. Factors associated with maternity waiting home use among women in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a multilevel crosssectional analysis. BMJ Open 2019;9:e028210. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2018-028210
5. Shifera Asfaw, Sudhakar Morankar, Muluemebet Abera, Abebe Mamo, Lakew Abebe, Nicole Bergen, Manisha A. Kulkarni and Ronald Labonté : Talking health: trusted health messengers and effective ways of delivering health messages for rural mothers in Southwest Ethiopia. Archives of Public Health (2019) 77
6. Mariame Ouedraogo , Jaameeta Kurji , Lakew Abebe , Ronald Labonte , Sudhakar Morankar , Kunuz Haji Bedru , Gebeyehu Bulcha , Muluemebet Abera , Beth K. Potter , Marie-He´lène Roy-Gagnon , Manisha A. Kulkarn: A quality assessment of Health Management Information System (HMIS) data for maternal and child health in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia . PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213600 March 11, 2019
7. Lelisa Sena Dadi, Melkamu Berhane, Yusuf Ahmed, Esayas Kebede Gudina, Tasew Berhanu, Kyung Hwan Kim, Masrie Getnet ,Muluemabet Abera: Maternal and newborn health services utilization in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume 19, Article number: 178 (2019)
8. Nicole Bergen , Abebe Mamo, Shifera Asfaw, Lakew Abebe, Jaameeta Kurji1, Getachew Kiros,Muluemebet Abera, Gebeyehu Bulcha Duguma, Kunuz Haji Bedru, Manisha A. Kulkarni, Ronald Labontéand Sudhakar Morankar: Perceptions and experiences related to health and health inequality among rural communities in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a rapid qualitative assessment. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:84 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0798-9
9. Dabere Nigatu, Abebe Gebremariam, Muluemebet Abera, Tesfaye Setegn, Kebede Deribe: Factors associated with women’s autonomy regarding maternal and child health care utilization in Bale Zone: a community based cross-sectional study. BMC Women’s Health 2014, 14:79
10. Abera M, G/Mariam A, Belachew T. Predictors Of Safe Delivery Service Utilization Among Women Of Child Bearing Age In Arsi Zone, Oromiya National Regional State, South-East Ethiopia; Ethiop J Health Sci. Aug. 2011; Vol 21(Special issue) PP 95-106