Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics (tenured) and Vice Chair for Academic Programs at Department of Public Health Sciences at MUSC. He is also Director of the HRSA-funded Region IV Public Health Training Center for South Carolina. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He received the Victor Sidel and Berry Levy Award for Peace in 2023 from the American Public Health Association. His research expertise is in public health and health services research including longitudinal data analysis, multiple outcomes research, and analysis of very large datasets from medical records and global health surveys. He has been collaborating with local, national and international researchers to study health equity, rural outreach, chronic conditions such as diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, transplants, liver disease, lung cancer, opioid use disorders, maternal health and other conditions. He is interested in global health and serves as member of the advisory board of the MUSC Center for Global Health. His global health research and collaborations emphasize capacity development in research methods and translational research. His most recent global health research and collaborations emphasize the health and humanitarian impacts of war. 

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Addis Ababa University and his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2006. He is founding secretary of the charity ED-REAP and serves on advisory boards of several charity organizations including the Worldwide Fistula Fund.