Dr Bereket Duko

Dr Bereket Duko (Adema) is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Precision Health - University of South Australia. Prior to the current position, he had worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate within the Epidemiology Research Team at the Discipline of Health Economics, Epidemiology and Data Analytics, Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, WA. He recently obtained his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Curtin University in July 2022. His Ph.D. project focused on the effects of prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure on offspring mental health and substance use adverse outcomes using the multigenerational pregnancy and birth cohort study (the Raine Study), based in Perth, Western Australia (WA). 

He currently holds an appointment as Adjunct Research Fellow at Epidemiology Research Team in the Discipline of Health Economics, Epidemiology and Data Analytics, at Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, WA. He has authored over 85 high-quality publications in international top-tier Epidemiology, medical, and discipline-specific journals. Before his Ph.D. study, he had been a faculty member at Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, involved in teaching, research, and community service activities. He is interested in applying different advanced epidemiological and statistical approaches including Mendelian randomization, doubly robust estimation, and machine learning to better understand the causes of diseases, with a primary focus on offspring mental health, behavioral and life-course problems.   

• 2022-present: Member, Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA)
• 2022-present: Society for Epidemiologic Research
• 2021-present: Member, Australian Public Health Association
• 2016-present: Member, Ethiopian Public Health Association.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Curtin University

• Master of Science University of Gondar

• Bachelor of Science University of Gondar