Kidist Bartolomeos

Kidist is an editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. She has a BA in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota and MPH from Emory University. In 2000, she was awarded an international fellowship from the CDC foundation and joined WHO as an Injury Surveillance Fellow. Before joining WHO, she was a fellow of the Association for Schools of Public Health, at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and after worked as a Research Director of a Firearm Injury Surveillance Project at Emory Center for Injury Control. For 15 years, she worked at the WHO, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, where she was responsible for global injury data/surveillance activities and providing technical support to WHO member states. She was the project manager for the 5-year Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program, for Kenya and Egypt. She was a co-editor of the World Report on Child Injury Prevention and a statistician for the first WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety.