Selam Bedada, MPH
Program Director, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
Department of Health Policy & Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health
With over ten years of experience in public health research and health systems strengthening, Selam Bedada’s concentration lies at the intersection of health equity, immigration, and gender-based violence. Originally from Ethiopia, she has worked in four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Malawi) and the United States on such projects.
She was an integral member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-Sub Saharan African Medical Schools Study (SAMSS) project and co-authored a book “The Sub-Saharan African Medical School Study: Data, Observation, and Opportunity” and an article in The Lancet, “Medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Selam is the recipient of the highest Presidential award at the George Washington University — the Presidential Administrative Fellow Award and has provided consultations for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative regarding the development of resources for country-relevant research, country context-specific research support centers, and communications as it relates to distance learning and building virtual communities of practices.
Program Director, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
Department of Health Policy & Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health
With over ten years of experience in public health research and health systems strengthening, Selam Bedada’s concentration lies at the intersection of health equity, immigration, and gender-based violence. Originally from Ethiopia, she has worked in four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Malawi) and the United States on such projects.
She was an integral member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-Sub Saharan African Medical Schools Study (SAMSS) project and co-authored a book “The Sub-Saharan African Medical School Study: Data, Observation, and Opportunity” and an article in The Lancet, “Medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Selam is the recipient of the highest Presidential award at the George Washington University — the Presidential Administrative Fellow Award and has provided consultations for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative regarding the development of resources for country-relevant research, country context-specific research support centers, and communications as it relates to distance learning and building virtual communities of practices.