Dr Daniel Yilma

Daniel Yilma is academician and an Internal Medicine physician in Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC). He obtained his PhD at the University of Copenhagen. He established clinical trial unit at JUMC and conducted infectious disease research mainly on HIV, Tuberculosis, COVID-19 and malaria.

Daniel joined IDDO/WWARN as a WHO/TDR fellow while continuing his research as a University of Cape Town (UCT) post-doctoral fellow, at the UCT Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy. He served as member of malaria case management team at national level. His work with WWARN and other collaborators focussed on findomg safe, effective and simplified malaria treatment and diagnostic tools.