Dr Bereket Duko

Dr. Bereket Duko (Adema) is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Precision Health - University of South Australia. Prior to his current position, he 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, utilising 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 the 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 95 high-quality publications in international top-tier Epidemiology, medical, and discipline-specific journals. Before beginning his Ph.D. study, he was a faculty member at Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, where he was involved in teaching, research, and community service activities. He is interested in applying various advanced epidemiological and statistical approaches, including Mendelian randomisation, doubly robust estimation, and machine learning, to better understand the causes of diseases, with a primary focus on offspring (children and young adults) mental health, behavioural, developmental 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