Feker Wondimagegnehu

Feker Wondimagegnehu is a public health analyst at RTI with experience in qualitative data collection and analyses, implementation science, and project coordination who focuses on opioid and alcohol misuse prevention research. Ms. Wondimagegnehu is involved in work related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), evidence-based intervention adoption, the funding infrastructure for substance use prevention, and online and firearm violence. She has experience leading systematic literature reviews and has assisted with conducting randomized control trials to assess community-level health and impact. 

Ms. Wondimagegnehu has worked on a range of projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is currently a part of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative’s Prevention Coordinating Center, which facilitates data sharing and dissemination across 10 research projects that are working to prevent opioid misuse. In her role on the project, Ms. Wondimagegnehu is supporting the implementation and evaluation of research projects and working to generate shared insights by collecting, analyzing, and reporting project data. She is also working as a project coordinator on a CDC-funded study that is evaluating the impact of community-level approaches in mitigating the harms of and exposure to ACEs and preventing substance use.