Our Team

Dr. Messay is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Development, and the former Director for the Office of HIV Prevention and Control at Addis Ababa University (AAU). He is a member of the advisory council for the HIV Care and Treatment (HiCT-CDS) Project at AAU and has more than 13 years of experience in research, teaching, and community service organizing throughout Ethiopia.

Dr. Messay works as a Research Manager with Horn Review and directs various qualitative and quantitative research projects in the team.

He is also a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He has worked for the University of Illinois in Chicago, USA, and Institute of Social Work in Tanzania as a trainer and for Drexel and Boston Universities, the USA as a research consultant. He was awarded the Civil Society Scholar Award on 2018-19 at the School of Social Work, at Indiana University in the United States. His primary research area relates to elder care and well-being.