Debrework Zewdie

Debrework Zewdie
Debrework Zewdie
Native name	ደብረወርቅ ዘውዴ
Born	Harar, Ethiopia
Occupation	Immunologist, Public Health Researcher, professor, global health leader
Alma mater	University of London, London, United Kingdom; St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Department of Experimental Pathology, London, United Kingdom; Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
Period	20th and 21st centuries
Genre	Immunology, public health, infectious disease, emergent diseases, Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS
Subject	Immunology, AIDS, public health, tuberculosis
Literary movement	Global health, infectious disease, women's health, feminism, Immunology, Public health science,

Debrework Zewdie (Amharic: ደብረወርቅ ዘውዴ), is an Ethiopian immunologist, known for her role in shaping international response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and her leadership positions at the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Immunology from the University of London and was a Senior MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies as well as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2015. During her Fellowship at the Harvard Chan School, she also participated as a speaker on Voices in Leadership, an original webcast series, in a discussion titled, "Leadership in Getting AIDS on the World Bank Agenda", moderated by Dr. Barry Bloom.

She is an advocate for women's health and was a founding vice president and member of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) and a member of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).