Wuleta Betemariam

Director, Center for Healthy Women, Children & Communities (HWCC)

Washington, DC

Wuleta Betemariam has more than 20 years of experience leading public health programs globally and was JSI’s country representative in Ethiopia and director of the Last Ten Kilometers project. Before JSI, as deputy director of Engender Health’s Program Division in New York, Wuleta established the organization’s presence in Ethiopia, a program in Sudan, and was the director for two countries. She was also a technical advisor for USAID’s Population, Health, and Nutrition Office, where she focused on reproductive health. Wuleta has an MPH in public health and policy from the University of Michigan and is in her final year of a DrPH program in public health leadership at the University of Illinois.

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Resources

Implementation fidelity of possible serious bacterial infection adaptive implementation during COVID-19 pandemic

Designing approaches of community engagement strategies to link communities with the primary health care system in Ethiopia

Intensified community surveillance to combat COVID-19 through house-to-house screening in Ethiopia: using the Health Extension Program

Immediate Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Essential MNCH Services in Selected Health Facilities in Ethiopia

Using mHealth to Improve Timeliness and Quality of Maternal and Newborn Health in the Primary Health Care System in Ethiopia

Effectiveness of Supervision on the Consistency of Neonatal Sepsis Management Skills of Health Extension Workers

Application of behavioral economics principles to reduce injectable contraceptive discontinuation in rural Ethiopia: A stratified-pair, cluster-randomized field trial

Jeopardizing quality at the frontline of healthcare: prevalence and risk factors for disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in Ethiopia

Effectiveness of participatory community solutions strategy on improving household and provider health care behaviors and practices: A mixed method

Effectiveness of participatory community solutions strategy on improving household and provider health care behaviors and practices: A mixed-method evaluation

Characterising innovations in maternal and newborn health based on a common theory of change: lessons from developing and applying a characterisation framework in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India

The effect of implementation strength of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) on facility deliveries and the met need for BEmONC at the primary health care level in Ethiopia

Effects of a participatory community quality improvement strategy on improving household and provider health care behaviors and practices: a propensity score analysis

Correlates of the Women’s Development Army strategy implementation strength with household reproductive, maternal, newborn and child healthcare practices: a cross-sectional study in four regions of Ethiopia

Effects of a community-based data for decision-making intervention on maternal and newborn health care practices in Ethiopia: a dose-response study

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Projects

Ethiopia Last Ten Kilometers 2020 (BMGF)

Ethiopia The Last Ten Kilometers: What it Takes to Improve Health Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia (Gates Foundation)