Prof. Atalay Alem

Atalay Alem qualified as a medical doctor in 1983 from Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He studied clinical psychiatry in the UK at University of Manchester and completed his training in 1989. He got his PhD in mental health epidemiology from Umea University, Sweden in 1997. He has served his country in the field of psychiatry at various positions and he has established sustained collaborations between his department and academic institutions abroad which has

resulted in great local capacity building. He has led epidemiological studies in different population groups in Ethiopia and initiated specialty training program in psychiatry in the country. He has published over 175 scientific papers and has received awards for his contribution to science and lifetime service. Most recently, he won the 2019 Harvard Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is currently Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre at Addis Ababa University and consultant psychiatrist at Tikur Ambessa Hospital in Ethiopia. He has honorary faculty positions at University of Toronto, Canada and Umea University in Sweden.