Staff

Dr Eshetu Worku – Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Eshetu Worku is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the HEU. Before this, he was a Senior Lecturer in economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Fort Hare and a Researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). He completed a BA degree in economics at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; a masters in economics at Aligarh Muslim University, India and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of the Western Cape.

Research interests: Social determinants of health, health economics, applied econometrics, development, small enterprises and financing.

Current research projects: (1) REACH –Researching Equity in Access to Health Care, (2) NRF- South African Research Chair in Health and Wealth.

Current teaching: Introduction to Health Economics and Health Policy/Health Economics I for Postgraduate Diploma Course (2) Economics of health system –Social Determinants of health for Maters Programme.

Publications

• Factors that affect the long-term survival of micro, small and medium enterprises in Ethiopia. South African Journal of Economics (SAJE).
• Women Entrepreneurship in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: the case of Ethiopia. Journal of International Women Studies (JIWS).

Contact

Email: wrkesh001@uct.ac.za, Tel: (+27) 072 703 8037