Dr. Abigia A. Negash, MD, MPH

Dr Abigia A. Negash holds a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Doctor of Medicine from Myungsung Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her work focuses on primary health care, health systems performance, and research that supports policy and program decisions.

She served as a Technical Working Group member for the End-Term Review of Ethiopia's Health Sector Development and Investment Plan I with the International Institute for Primary Health Care Ethiopia, coordinating field operations with the Ministry of Health, regional health bureaus, and implementing partners, developing project tracking tools and dashboards, and conducting quality assurance across health posts, health centers, hospitals, and stakeholder interviews.

As a research consultant she led qualitative work on policy gaps in the integration of sexual and reproductive health into primary health care, including key informant interviews, thematic analysis, and synthesis of national policies into actionable recommendations. She has also worked as a Research Associate with Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and as a Graduate Research Assistant on a multi country review of community health worker programs with the World Health Organization.

She is a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society and has contributed to published research on HPV vaccination acceptance and cancer outcomes, with additional work under review on cancer screening among immigrant and refugee communities.