Tsega Berhe Debesai

Tsega Berhe is a research associate in the animal and human health program at ILRI. She is working on a project named Scaling Agroforestry to Benefit the Welfare of Animals and their Owners in Ethiopia (SAWA). The Biovision Foundation is funding this project. Upon joining ILRI, she was hired to work on both the SAWA project and to support ongoing epidemiological  research into the control of Peste des Petits Ruminants, which is a fatal disease that affects small ruminants. She is currently fully dedicated to working on the SAWA project.

Before joining ILRI, she worked as an associate researcher at the Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia; Hawassa Agricultural Research Center. She was engaged in animal health-related research projects. She was the youth coordinator at Sodo Zuria District, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia. 

Tsega has a DVM degree from Haramaya University and a master's from Addis Ababa University in veterinary epidemiology. She also went to the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, for her second master's in Tropical Animal Health.