Hawi Sofani

Dr
Hawi
Sofani

Lecturer, PhD fellow at AAU CVMA
AAU CVMA
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Biography
My name is Hawi Jaleta. I am from Ethiopia. Even if I am raised with in a society that blames the outshining and learning of females, thanks to my father, who is my hero and role model, he believed in me and sent me to school. I have graduated with Veterinary Medicine from Wollega University, Ethiopia in 2014. I have started job at wollega University as a lecturer. After three years I got a chance from the university to commence my MSc at AAU CVMA and completed in 2019. Now I am a PhD fellow at AAU CVMA. Despite of being the highest livestock producing country from Africa, my country Ethiopia and the nation could not benefited from the sector as needed. The potential reason for this must be disease like FMD. One of the constraints for prevention and control is vaccine failure. In my present research I will find out why the vaccine failed, is vaccine miss matching could be probable reason??
Research interests
Matching the commercially available vaccine strain with currently circulating strain of FMD Virus
Projects you're working on
Foot and Mouth Disease, Molecular Epidemiology and Vaccine Matching.
Discipline
Epidemiology
Host species
Cattle
Pathogen
VirusesFoot-and-mouth disease virus
Stage of vaccine development
Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring