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.