Abraham Tesfay

Resource person

Mr. TESFAY is an epidemiologist and M&E specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the monitoring and evaluation of HIV and AIDS programs across Africa. He served as a senior M&E advisor for several USAID and CDC funded multi-million-dollar projects in East, Central and Southern Africa. He served as senior M&E advisor for the “Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Developmental Strategies (ROADS)” project (implemented across 7 countries) for 8 years. He played an advisory role in monitoring and evaluating the “Sudan HIV and ADIS project (SHAP)” in South Sudan. He also served as senior M&E personnel for the “Corridor’s of Hope” projects in Zambia. As M&E specialist, Mr. Tesfay was responsible for monitoring resource allocation, development of training materials, designing evaluation tools, monitoring output, analyzing and interpreting data and undertaking quality assurance activities. Mr. Tesfay served as Manager of Operations for HRSA funded HIV programs in Zambia between 2017 and 2025.

Mr. Tesfay has been involved in many studies including polio costing study in South Africa, Rational Medication Use Review in Burundi and ART Lost to follow-up assessment in Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Mr. Tesfay developed and facilitated monitoring and evaluation lesson for post graduate students in South Africa. Mr. Tesfay served as senior Epidemiologist in “Surveillance of HIV positive Pre-ART persons” project in South Africa.

Mr. Tesfay has a medical background; He completed a 5-year degree program in “Public Health and Clinical Science”. Mr. Tesfay completed a Masters degree in Medical Science in the field of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (MSc.); he also holds another Masters degree in Public Health (MPH). He is expert in quantitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and data presentation.  He is fluent in written and spoken English and has excellent facilitation, oral and written communication skills.

Mr. Tesfay has extensive experience working in a leadership capacity with international donors, senior government officials and policymakers with strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills and ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public and NGO sectors. Mr. Tesfay can work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.