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Teaching, Research, and Service Opportunities in Ethiopia Ann A. OConnell School of Policy and Leadership, EHE IPSC Population 90 million (2011) Neighbors include Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea to the north, and Kenya to the South

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Teaching, Research, and Service Opportunities in Ethiopia

Ann A. O’Connell School of Policy and Leadership, EHE IPSC

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  • Population 90

million (2011)

  • Neighbors

include Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea to the north, and Kenya to the South

  • Refugees: 63.9

thousand

Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world.

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  • Recurrent food

insecurity and tendency for rain failure and famine in the region

  • Famine, hunger,

food-insecurity are recurring issues due to environmental, political, and economic issues

  • Population: 83

million (world bank)

  • Addis Pop: 2.8

million

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STAT-PLANET LINK

  • Up to 78% of population living on less than $2US per day
  • HDI = .328, ranking 157 out of 169 countries with data (US ranks 4rth; HDI = .91
  • Expected yrs schooling for kids <7yrs old: 8.5 years
  • Adult Literacy Rate: 29.8% (males/females combined)
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October 2009 BBC

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September 2011

  • Represent IPSC during the ICOPHAI Congress: First

International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface

– Impact, Limitations, and Needs in Developing Countries

  • Met with:

– Faculty and administration at Addis Ababa University – Executive Director and Board of Directors for Mary Joy Development Agency (MJDA) – Toured local NGO supporting school completion for girls orphaned by AIDS – Toured Health Clinic supported by MJDA – Staff of the International Rescue Committee

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ICOPHAI

  • Conference Link and One Health
  • OSU primary sponsor
  • Chairperson – Wondwossen Gebreyes, OSU

Professor, Veterinary preventive medicine

  • Keynote – Dean Lonnie King, Vet Medicine

– Confronting Infectious Diseases in an Interconnected World

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View from my room, Jupiter Hotel, Addis.

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UN Conference Center

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UN Conference Center

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At the Palace: Howard Goldstein; President of Ethiopia Girma Wolde-Giorgis; and me.

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At the Palace: Bayleyegn Molla, Lonnie King, William Brustein, Larry Schlesinger, me, Howard Goldstein

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  • Tirussew Teferra, Ph.D.

– Professor, Educational Research and former Dean

  • Mekasha Kassay, Ph.D.

– Dean, College of Education

  • Jeilu Oumer, Ph.D.

– Academic Vice President

  • Miriam Alemayehut

– Director, Special Needs College

  • Debebe Ero

– Faculty of Social Work – Chair Mary Joy Development Association Board of Directors

  • College of Education, Science and Math Faculty

– Dr. Mulugeta Atnafu – Mekbib Alemu – Kassa Michael

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(Link to AAU)

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Graduate School of Education

  • Teacher education, educational leadership, early

childhood care and education, community and youth development, curriculum design and special needs education

  • Committed and dedicated faculty and staff,

working to scale up quality to an international level

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GSE Needs and/or Constraints

  • Research Methodology, Statistics Education, Program

Evaluation

  • National investment in inclusion and disability

services/education, early childhood education, youth development, workforce development

  • Limited support for doctoral students (grants, mentoring,

research opportunities)

  • Technology and Computer Issues
  • GSE wants to strengthen university-secondary school

linkages

  • GSE wants to engage community organizations such as

Mary Joy Development Organization for outreach, research

  • pportunities for graduate students

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Community Organizations

  • Children’s Heaven

– Supports young girls orphaned by HIV/AIDS to continue in school – Provides lunches and a Saturday school program – Link

  • Mary Joy Development Association

– One of the largest NGO’s in Addis/Ethiopia – Education, health, workforce development, elder care, disability services – Link

  • Organizations are supported by Donations, not the

government

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% of Ethiopian adolescents 15-19 years who have comprehensiv e knowledge

  • f HIV:

Males: 32% Females: 21%

(Source: UNICEF (2005- 2009)

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Children’s Heaven

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Mary Joy Development Association

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Mary Joy sponsored Health Center

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Opportunities

  • Research, Teaching and Service

– Capacity building for research and research training/graduate education

  • AAU – collective will and vision, committed to working with OSU

– EHE Seed Grant Collaboration – Invitation to teach statistics (regression) and program evaluation

  • Potential for Gateway in future
  • East Africa Liason – Abebaw Tezera Zerihun

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Thank you!! aoconnell@ehe.osu.edu

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Thank you!! aoconnell@ehe.osu.edu