Mesele Damte Argaw

Biographic Data

ID7799725
NAMEMesele Damte Argaw
GIVEN NAMESMesele Damte
FAMILY NAMEArgaw
SIGNATUREARGAW M D
AFFILIATIONSEthiopian Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0002-9558-6619
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Advancing gender equity in primary health care

    Open AccessGizachew Tadele Tiruneh, Agumasie Semahegn et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Gender inequities remain a major barrier to women’s access to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services. To address this gap, the Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) project integrated a set of gender-responsive strategies into primary health care (PHC) systems. This paper presents lessons from implementing gender-responsive strategies that empowered women and communities while enhancing access to essent…

  • Gender dynamics affecting women’s uptake of maternal health service in agrarian and pastoral settings in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAgumasie Semahegn, Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Lack of access to essential maternal health service remains a significant public health challenge in low-income countries. Gender dynamics play a critical role in determining women’s access to and use of maternal health services. We assessed the influence of gender dynamics on women’s use of maternal health services in Ethiopia. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted using a mixed method in 10 selected district…

  • Women’s postpartum family planning use and intention in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAgumasie Semahegn, Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Despite the substantial improvement on maternal health service use and impactful intervention to reduce the risk of maternal and child deaths, uptake of Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) has remain a critical gap in Ethiopia. There is a paucity of context-based evidence is crucial in addressing these gaps to inform policies. We assessed women’s current use and intention on postpartum contraception in the agrarian and pastoral contexts of Ethiopia…

  • Gender disparities and barriers to access and use of essential health services in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAgumasie Semahegn, Yohannes Mehretie Adinew et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Despite remarkable gains in maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes globally, the lack of access to and use of essential health services remains a challenge in low-income countries, like Ethiopia. To address health service access and use, the Ethiopian government has endorsed a fifteen-year “Optimizing Ethiopian Health Extension Program” strategy. This study explored gender barriers to access to and use of MCH services in the primary health care…

  • Exploring the opportunities and challenges of female health leaders in three regional states of Ethiopia

    Open AccessSualiha Abdulkader Muktar, Binyam Fekadu Desta et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The opinions and experiences of female health leaders revealed that individual behaiour whileassumming a leadership positon, empathy, and wise resource management positivey influence their career development. In addition, female health workers who had support form close family members and peers strived for growth to leadership positions. Furthermore, the presence of organizational support, in the form of affirmative actions, and succession planni…

  • Pertussis outbreak in southern Ethiopia

    Open AccessAychiluhim Damtew Mitiku, Mesele Damte Argaw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    There is an urgent need to build capacity to strengthen routine vaccination services and improve the maintenance of the vaccine cold chain. Other LMICs are urged to take lessons learned from this outbreak to strengthen their own vaccination programs and capacitate health workers to manage local outbreaks