Teshale Tolera

Professor
Teshale
Tolera

University Lecturer
Addis Ababa University
Biography
 PhD in 2018 from University of Gent, Belgium (Molecular Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Diseases)  Certificate of completion of courses on Epidemiology, Statistics and Risk analysis from 12/01/2015 to 27/02/2015, 12 Credits at the Institute of Tropical medicine, Antwerp, Belgium  MSc degree in 2010 from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium with specialization in Animal Disease Control  DVM degree in 1999 from Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture
Research interests
My major research interests include: Epidemiology of infectious diseases; development, evaluation and monitoring of vaccines and assessment of impacts of animal health interventions such vaccination on the the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
Projects you're working on
1. Development of vaccine against Marek's Disease 2. Development of killed vaccine against Epizootic Lymphangitis 3. Evaluation of Newcastle vaccine delivery methods 4. Establishing optimum vaccination schedule for combined used of IBD and ND vaccines
Discipline
Challenge study design Clinical trials – efficacy Clinical trials – safety Epidemiology Ethics Molecular biology Parasitology Statistics
Host species
Camels Cattle Horses Poultry Small ruminants
Pathogen
BacteriaBrucella BacteriaChlamydophila BacteriaClostridia BacteriaCorynebacterium BacteriaE. coli BacteriaMycobacteria bovis BacteriaMycoplasma BacteriaSalmonella ParasitesBabesia ParasitesNematodes ParasitesTaenia solium ParasitesTheileria annulata ParasitesTheileria parva ParasitesTicks ParasitesTrypanosoma VirusesAfrican horse sickness virus VirusesAfrican swine fever virus VirusesArboviruses VirusesBovine viral diarrhoea VirusesCapripoxvirus VirusesFoot-and-mouth disease virus VirusesInfectious bursal disease virus VirusesInfluenza virus VirusesMareks disease virus VirusesNewcastle disease virus VirusesParamyxoviruses VirusesPeste des petits ruminants virus VirusesPoxviruses VirusesRabies virus VirusesRespiratory syncytial virus VirusesRift Valley fever virus VirusesRotavirus
Stage of vaccine development
Adjuvants Clinical trials Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring Field trials Pre-clinical trials Vaccine delivery