Haramaya University & University of Washington
Haramaya University has an established partnership with the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) Antwerp, Belgium, one of the world’s leading centers for tropical medicine and global health research. Although publicly available sources do not specify the exact start year of the partnership,
Haramaya University maintains a meaningful partnership with the University of Washington (UW) Seattle, centered on strengthening public health research, training, and capacity building. While publicly available sources do not specify the exact start year of the bilateral partnership, UW’s Department of Global Health, which operates more than 280 global health projects in over 140 countries, is a major hub for collaborations with institutions like Haramaya University.
FOCUS AREA
The core working areas of the partnership align with UW’s global health mandate—epidemiology, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, health systems research, and capacity‑building programs that support postgraduate training and collaborative research in Ethiopia.
