Habtamu Tamene

Biographic Data

ID7762229
NAMEHabtamu Tamene
GIVEN NAMESHabtamu
FAMILY NAMETamene
SIGNATURETAMENE H
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0009-0003-7531-7352
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Introducing and testing the maternal vulnerability segmentation tool (MVST) for essential health services use

    Open AccessYihunie Lakew, Habtamu Tamene Temesgen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    Ethiopia has made substantial progress in improving maternal health outcomes; however, significant disparities remain among populations whose individual, interpersonal, community and cultural factors place them at greater risk, as compared with those with better access to resources and healthcare facilities. Addressing these disparities requires initiating advanced and targeted segmentation tools to effectively identify and reach vulnerable group…

  • Transforming maternal health in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYihunie Lakew, Biruk Melaku Ayalew et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    A significant number of maternal and child births in Ethiopia are at elevated risk because they occur at home and/or because of low rates of antenatal care visits. This study applied a human-centered design (HCD) approach to develop contextually appropriate solutions that can promote institutional delivery and a greater number of antenatal care visits. The HCD approach (a five-step design-thinking process) was conducted in two rounds of workshops…

  • Psychosocial factors associated with malaria care-seeking in rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessBolanle Olapeju, Habtamu Tamene et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Among this rural Ethiopian population, prompt care-seeking was low but positively influenced by both ideational and contextual psychosocial factors occurring at the caregiver level. Multi-sectoral interventions at the individual, community, and health facility levels are needed to improve prompt care-seeking. These include social behavior change interventions to improve ideation, complemented by health facility interventions to ensure provision o…

  • HIV related risk behaviours among taxi drivers and their assistants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessYihunie Lakew, Habtamu Tamene et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Risky sexual behaviours in this sub-population were considerable and associated factors were found to be multidimensional. Therefore, there is a need for robust intervention strategies such as tailored serial radio program targeting taxi drivers and their assistants