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Dr Molla Mesele Wassie is a Senior Research Fellow in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. He is a Clinical and Nutritional Epidemiologist with advanced statistical analysis skills. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Hawassa University, a Master of Science in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Gondar, and a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Adelaide, for which he received the Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Prior to his PhD, Dr Wassie served as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia, where he headed the Human Nutrition department at the Institute of Public Health and helped establish a nutritional surveillance program in Northwest Ethiopia in 2016. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of colorectal cancer, drawing on large longitudinal data from the Southern Cooperative Program for the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer (SCOOP). He has held appointments including Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Assistant at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide. Dr Wassie has received multiple grants and awards, including an NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership Level 1) for personalising colorectal cancer prevention strategies, a Flinders Foundation Cancer Seed Grant, and recognition for best short talk at an Emerging Leaders Showcase. He maintains professional memberships in the Nutrition Society of Australia, the American Society of Nutrition, and the Ethiopian Public Health Association.
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