Dr Daniel Odo

Contacts

Contact email:Daniel.Odo@anu.edu.au
Centre:Yardhura Walani
PhD (UQ), MPH, BSc
Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Dr Odo is an early-carrier researcher, now working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), the Australian National University (ANU). Dr Odo is currently working on data such as Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) and Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) on different research topics within the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research. He completed his PhD in 2023 from the University of Queensland (UQ), having joined UQ with an international scholarship in 2019. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning public health (MPH) and environmental health and Epidemiology (BSc & PhD). He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. Dr.Odo has authored and co-authored over 28 peer-reviewed research articles published on high impact journals, such as Environment International, the Lancet, and Science of the Total Environment, his works have been receiving attention from scientific community. His research interest includes public health, air pollution, climate change, program evaluation and WASH.

Before pursuing his PhD, Dr Odo worked as an Assistant Professor, lecturer and graduate assistant in different Universities in Ethiopia, where he taught public health courses such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Research methods, Health Service Management, Health Economics and Environmental Health, and served as an academic advisor. Additionally, Dr Odo has a few leadership experiences including working as a program learning and implementation coordinator for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) project, implementation research which was led by Addis Ababa University in collaboration with Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health for more than two years. During his PhD study, he worked as a senior research assistant at the School of Public Health (SPH), the University of Queensland (UQ).

Dr Odo has big data analysis experience and a strong international collaboration, and he is a member/fellow researcher of the Australian Based Ethiopian Researchers Network (ABReN) and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network.

Research

Research interests

  • Tobacco use
  • Determinants of health inequalities
  • Big data analysis
  • Indigenous health and wellbeing
  • Air pollution and health
  • WASH
  • Climate change

Publications

  1. Odo, D.B., Yang, I.A., Dey, S., Hammer, M.S., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R.V., Dong, G.-H., Yang, B.-Y., Hystad, P., Knibbs, L.D., A cross-sectional analysis of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and 4 haemoglobin levels in children aged under 5 years living in 36 countries. Environ Res. 15 June, 2023; 227:115734: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115734  
  2. Odo D.B, Yang IA, Dey S, Hammer MS, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Dong GH, Yang BY, Hystad P, Knibbs LD. A cross-sectional analysis of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and cognitive development in children aged 3–4 years living in 12 low- and middle-income countries. Environ. Pollut. 2023, 318:120916, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120916  
  3. Odo D.B, Yang IA, Dey S, Hammer MS, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Dong GH, Yang BY, Hystad P, Knibbs LD. Ambient air pollution and acute respiratory infection in children aged under 5 years living in 35 developing countries. Environ Int. 2022 Jan 15; 159:107019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.107019
  4.  Odo, D.B., Yang, I.A., Knibbs, L.D. A Systematic Review and Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies on Household Fuel Use and Its Health Effects Using Demographic and Health Surveys. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 1411, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041411   
  5. Odo D.B., Ian A. Yang, Donna Green, Luke D. Knibbs. Women’s empowerment and household fuel use in 31 African countries: a cross-sectional analysis of households in the Demographic and Health Survey. Environ. Res. Lett. 2021, http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdd59
  6.  Wang X, Xu Z, Su H, Ho HC, Song Y, Zheng H, Bogale D. et al. Ambient particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) and childhood pneumonia: The smaller particle, the greater short-term impact? Science of The Total Environment. 2021; 772:145509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145509  
  7. Wu Q., Yang M., Wu K., Su H., Huang C., Xu Z., Ho HC., Zheng H., Zhang W., Tao J., Dang TAT., Hossain MZ., Khan MA., Bogale D., Cheng J. Abnormal ambient temperature change increases the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis of exposure types, risk, and vulnerable populations. Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 160554, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160554
  8. Junwen Tao, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Zhiwei Xu, Hung Chak Ho, Md Alfazal Khan, Cunrui Huang, Hao Zheng, Jing Ni, Yinguan Fan, Bogale D, Hong Su, Jian Cheng. Protective effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on the short-term association between low temperatures and childhood pneumonia hospitalizations: Interrupted time-series and case-crossover analyses in Matlab, Bangladesh. Environ Res. 2022; 212:113156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113156  
  9. Zenbaba D, Sahiledengle B, Beressa G, Desta F, Atlaw D, Bogale D and Chattu VK. Healthcare workers’ compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures, and associated factors, in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open 2022;12: 060681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060681  
  10. Sahiledengle, B, Atlaw, D, Kumie, A, Beressa G, Tekalegn Y, Zenbaba D, Woldeyohannes D, Desta F, Assefa T, Bogale D, Nugusu F, and Agho KE. Earning pocket money and girls’ menstrual hygiene management in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Women's Health 22, 271 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01855-2
  11. GBD 2019 Ethiopia Subnational-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators including Odo D.B. Progress in health among regions of Ethiopia, 1990–2019: A subnational country analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 2022, 399, 1322–1335, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02868-3  
  12. Mekonnen AG, Odo D.B, Nigatu D. Adolescents' Contraceptive Uptake in Ethiopia: A Meta-Analysis. Biomed Res Int. 2022; 2022:6104467, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6104467  
  13. Odo D.B, Mekonnen AG. Availability and factors influencing community level handwashing facility in Ethiopia: Implication for prevention of infectious diseases. PLoS ONE. 2021, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243228  
  14. Mekonnen, A.G., Odo, D.B., Nigatu, D. et al. Women’s empowerment and child growth faltering in Ethiopia: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey. BMC Women's Health. 2021; 21:42, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01183-x  
  15. Mekonnen, A.G., Odo, D.B., Nigatu, D. et al. Determinants of adolescents’ contraceptive uptake in Ethiopia: a systematic review of literature. Contracept Reprod Med 7, 16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40834-022-00183-y  
  16. Nigatu D, Abeje G, Mekonnen AG., Azage M, Bogale D. Maternal Health Service Uptake Is Associated with a Higher Skin-to-Skin Care Practice in Ethiopia: Result from a National Survey. Biomed Res Int. 2020; 2020: 8841349, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8841349 
  17. Dadi D, Bogale D, Minda Z, Megersa S. Decision-Making Power of Married Women on Family Planning Use and Associated Factors in Dinsho Woreda, South East Ethiopia. Open Access J Contracept. 2020; 7;11:15-23, https://doi.org/10.2147/OAJC.S225331  
  18. Gonie A, Worku C, Assefa T, Bogale D, Girma A. Acceptability and factors associated with post-partum IUCD use among women who gave birth at bale zone health facilities, Southeast-Ethiopia. Contracept Reprod Med. 2018; 3:16, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40834-018-0071-z
  19. Zenbaba D, Sahiledengle B, Bogale D. Practices of Healthcare Workers regarding Infection Prevention in Bale Zone Hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia. Advances in Public Health. 2020; 2020: 4198081, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4198081
  20. Markos D, Bogale D. Knowledge and utilization of partograph among health care professionals in public health institutions of Bale zone, Southeast Ethiopia. Public Health. 2016; 137:162-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.02.026  
  21. Bogale D, et al. Assessment of occupational injuries among Addis Ababa city municipal solid waste collectors: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2014; 14:169  https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-169    
  22. Bogale D, Markos D: Prevalence of female genital mutilation and its effect on women’s health in Bale zone, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2014, 14:1076, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14- 1076
  23. Bogale D, Markos D: Knowledge of obstetric danger signs among child bearing age women in Goba district, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2015, 15:77, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-015-0508-1
  24. Bogale D, Markos D, Kaso M: Intention toward the continuation of female genital mutilation in Bale Zone, Ethiopia. International Journal of Women’s Health. 2015:7 85–93, https://doi.org/10.2147/ijwh.s74832
  25. Bogale, D, Shifti DM. Institutional Delivery Service Utilization and Associated Factors among Child Bearing Age Women in Goba Woreda, Ethiopia. Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2014; 2(4): 63- 70, https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jgo.20140204.14
  26. Markos D, Bogale D. Birth preparedness and complication readiness among women of childbearing age group in Goba woreda, Oromia region, Ethiopia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2014; 14:282, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-14-282
  27. Markos D, Bogale D. Documentation status of the modified World Health Organization partograph in public health institutions of Bale zone, Ethiopia. Reproductive Health. 2015; 12:81, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-015-0074-z

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