Meron Kitaw is a senior public health professional with extensive experience leading health, research, and community development initiatives across Ethiopia. She has collaborated with organizations including UNFPA, Amref Health Africa, FHI 360, and USAID-funded programs, contributing to work in reproductive health, social and behavior change (SBC) research, healthcare quality improvement, and community engagement.
Her experience includes managing national-level data collection, training and supervising field teams, and producing structured analyses and reports. She has coordinated major assignments such as USAID's Healthy Behaviors baseline assessment across six regions, UNFPA's PSEA assessments in Amhara, Tigray, and Afar, and Dashen Bank's Public Opinion Survey, Customer Satisfaction and NPS Survey — sharpening her ability to manage complex, multi-regional projects and deliver results under demanding conditions. She has also built expertise in healthcare quality improvement through the SafeCare standards framework, supporting facilities to assess readiness and design practical improvement plans. Technically, she brings strong skills in data entry, cleaning, and analysis (SPSS, Atlas.ti, ODK - Open Data Kit), project coordination, and capacity building — with a commitment to strengthening resilient health systems in Ethiopia.