Kemal Lemnuro Awol

About

Physician-researcher (MD, MPH) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. My research focuses on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health, obesity, epidemiology, biomarkers, risk stratification, clinical outcomes, evidence synthesis, genomics, and metabolomics. I am also passionate about public health leadership, advocacy, and policy and serve as a Senior Collaborator for the Global Burden of Disease Study at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington and Reviewer for PLOS One Medicine.

Employment

• Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2026 - Present
• Armauer Hansen Research Institute Research Associate II (Freelancer)
  2024 - 2025
• Werabe University Medical Doctor, Lecturer and Researcher
  2021 - Present
• Tora Primary Hospital Medical Doctor (General Practitioner), Chief Clinical Director
  2017 - 2021

Education

• Johns Hopkins University Master of Public Health (MPH with Epi-Bio Competency)
  2025 - 2026
• Jimma University Doctor of Medicine
  2011 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (2)

• Adherence to anti-seizure medications and associated factors among children with epilepsy at tertiary Hospital in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
  BMC Neurology 2022 DOI: 10.1186/s12883-022-02842-8
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• Prevalence and factors associated with active trachoma among children 1-9 years of age in the catchment population of tora primary hospital, silte zone, southern ethiopia, 2020
  Open Ophthalmology Journal 2021 DOI: 10.2174/1874364102115010108
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