Dr. Daniel G. Datiko

REACH Ethiopia

Executive Director and Consultant for LSTM

Email: danieljohn42@yahoo.com

Qualifications

2011 Ph.D., University of Bergen, Norway, Centre for International Health

1998 M.D., Addis Ababa University Medical Faculty, Ethiopia

Publications (selected)

1. M. A. Yassin, D. G. Datiko, E. B. Shargie, Ten-year experiences of the tuberculosis control programme in the southern region of Ethiopia, Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2006; 10(10)9: 1166 -1171
2. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Luelseged T. Chekol, Lopisso E. Kabeto, Bernt Lindtjørn, The rate of TB HIV coinfection depends on the prevalence of HIV in the community BMC Public Health 2008, 8:266 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-266
3. Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2009) Health Extension Workers Improve Tuberculosis Case Detection and Treatment Success in Southern Ethiopia: A Community Randomized Trial. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5443. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005443
4. Daniel G. Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Tuberculosis recurrence in smear-positive patients cured under DOTS in southern Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study BMC Public Health 2009, 9:348  doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-348
5. Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2010) Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Smear-Positive Tuberculosis by Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia: An Ancillary Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Community Randomized Trial. PLoS ONE 5 (2): e9158. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009158
6. D. G. Datiko, B. Lindtjørn (2010): Mortality in successfully treated tuberculosis patients in southern Ethiopia: retrospective post-treatment follow-up study. Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2010; 14(7): 866 -871
7. Mohammed A. Yassin, Daniel G. Datiko, Olivia Tulloch, Paulos Markos, Melkamsew Aschalew,  Estifanos B. Shargie, Mesay H Dangisso, Ryuichi Komatsu, Suvanand Sahu, Lucie Blok, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald, Innovative community based approaches for enhanced case finding and treatment outcome in southern Ethiopia  PLoS One. 2013; 8(5): e63174.
8. Dangisso MH, Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2014) Trends of Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Ten-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis in Urban-Rural Settings. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114225. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114225
9. Woldesemayat EM, Datiko DG, Lindtjørn B (2015) Follow-Up of Chronic Coughers Improves Tuberculosis Case Finding: Results from a Community-Based Cohort Study in Southern Ethiopia. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0116324. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116324
10. Olivia Tulloch, Sally Theobald, Fukushi Morishita,  Daniel G. Datiko, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jama, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas, Mohammed A. Yassin,: Patient and community experiences of tuberculosis diagnosis and care within a community-based intervention in Ethiopia: a qualitative study  BMC public health (2015)15:187 DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1523-x
11. Dangisso MH, Datiko DG, LindtjørnB (2015) Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia.  PLoSONE10 (6): e0126369.doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0126369
12. Solomon M. Abay, Kebede Deribe, Ayalu A. Reda, Sibhatu Baidgilign, Daniel Datiko, Tigist Assefa, Maja Todd, Amare Deribew, The effect of early initiation of antiretroviral therapy in TB/HIV co-infected patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2015, DOI: 10.1177/2325957415599210
13. Mesay H. Dangisso, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn, Low case notification rates of childhood tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia, BMC Pediatrics (2015) 15:142 DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0461-1
14. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Olivia Tulloch, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jamal, Paulos Markos, Luis E. Cuevas, Sally Theobald: Exploring providers’ perspectives of a community based TB approach in Southern Ethiopia: implication for community based Approaches, BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:501  doi:10.1186/s12913
15. Mesay H. Dangisso, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn , Accessibility to tuberculosis control services and tuberculosis programme performance in southern Ethiopia, Glob Health Action 2015, 8: 29443 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.29443
16. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Sally Theobald,  Luis E. Cuevas, A community-based Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for prevention of childhood tuberculosis in Ethiopia, INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 21(9):1002 -1007, http:/dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.16.0471.
17. Daniel G. Datiko, Mohammed A. Yassin, Sally Theobald,  Luis E. Cuevas, Health extension workers improve tuberculosis case finding and treatment outcome in Ethiopia: a large-scale implementation study, BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000390. Doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000390