Yohannes Wado

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Yohannes Wado

Associate Research Scientist

ABOUT Yohannes Wado

Yohannes is working under the Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health (PDRH) Program on several projects: Kenya National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (KNAMHS) , Evaluation of In Their Hands (ITH) programme, Increasing Regional Level Evidence to Facilitate the Demographic Dividend in Africa, Adolescent Girls Initiative Kenya (AGIK) and Countdown to 2030 Adolescent SRH projects.

PhD in Public Health from Addis Ababa University , double Masters Degrees in Demography and Populations studies from the university of Groningen ( the Netherlands) and Addis Ababa University. Before joining APHRC, Yohannes worked as Senior Advisor for Research and Evaluation at Ipas Ethiopia for two and half years and as assistant professor at Jimma University in South West Ethiopia.

Yohannes is driven by the motivation that research and evidence make a difference in promoting good health and wellbeing.
His research interests include fertility and family planning, sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth and social determinants of adolescent health.

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Yohannes has authored many journal articles on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, family planning and comprehensive abortion care. He was a fellow of the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF), a fellow of the PRB policy communication program during his PhD study and currently a fellow of African Research Excellence Fund.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE – KENYA : MIDLINE RESULTS REPORT

July 1, 2018

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Contextual Influences on the Choice of Long-Acting Reversible and Permanent Contraception in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis

March 13, 2019

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Contraceptive Use in East Africa: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?

July 19, 2018

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Lagging fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and patterns in selected countries

July 19, 2018

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Playing it Safe: Legal and Clandestine Abortions Among Adolescents in Ethiopia

July 19, 2018

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Pregnancy and Early Motherhood Among Adolescents in Five East African Countries: A Multi-Level Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors

March 13, 2019

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Technical Brief In Their Hands Evaluation Project

July 19, 2019

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Technical Report: Baseline Assessment From Homa Bay and Narok Counties

July 19, 2019

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The effects of a community-based intervention on women’s knowledge and attitudes about safe abortion in intervention and comparison towns in Oromia, Ethiopia

July 19, 2018

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What it takes: Meeting unmet need for family planning in East Africa

July 19, 2018

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Women’s autonomy and reproductive health-care-seeking behavior in Ethiopia

July 19, 2018

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Lagging Fertility Transition In Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends And Patterns In Selected Countries

March 2, 2020

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Adolescent Girls Initiative–Kenya: Endline evaluation report

June 16, 2020

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“Those are things for married people” exploring parents’/adults’ and adolescents’ perspectives on contraceptives in Narok and Homa Bay Counties, Kenya

April 21, 2021

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“I was tricked”: Understanding reasons for unintended pregnancy among sexually active adolescent girls

April 21, 2021

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Impacts of two-year multisectoral cash plus programs on young adolescent girls’ education, health and economic outcomes: Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) randomized trial

December 1, 2021

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Key findings: Kenya National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (K-NAMHS)

September 14, 2022

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RECENT PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECT
Adolescent Girls Initiative – Kenya
Adolescent girls in Kenya face considerable risks and vulnerabilities that…
ONGOING PROJECT
Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health: Strengthening analysis and evidence in sub-Saharan Africa
Country institutional capacity for data analysis is improving but very…
ONGOING PROJECT
Evaluation of in their hands program
The In Their Hands (ITH) program aims to increase adolescents’…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Increasing Regional-Level Evidence to Facilitate the Demographic Dividend in Africa
The project offers scope for APHRC to bring its work…
ONGOING PROJECT
Quality of Post-Abortion Care in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Nigeria
Currently, about 90% of women of childbearing age in Africa…