Dr. Habteyes Hailu Tola

Research and Community Service Corporate Director, Salale University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital

Director's Message

It is my great pleasure to extend my warmest greetings to all members of our academic, clinical, and external communities. As the Corporate Director of Research and Community Service, I firmly believe that research and community engagement are fundamental pillars for advancing knowledge, solving societal challenges, and driving sustainable development of our country.

Our office is committed to promoting a vibrant research culture by encouraging innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and evidence-based inquiry across all departments the college. We strive to support our researchers in generating impactful findings that contribute to national health problems. Equally, our community service programs aim to bridge the gap between academia and society by translating research into practice, fostering partnerships, and empowering communities through knowledge and action to present their health.

We continue to uphold the values of academic integrity, research ethics, inclusiveness, and relevance in research conducting. We also build the research capacity of our academic and clinical staff to engage them in problem solving research. We effectively communicate both research and community service output through scientific communication. Our journal, Horn African Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences is a platform for scientific debate for our researchers and global scientific community. I invite all staff, students, and partners to actively participate in our research and outreach efforts as we work together to transform lives and build resilient health system.

Background

The Research and Community Service Corporate Director at the College of Health Sciences, Salale University is established with the mission to catalyse research and community service across the college and the hospital community. This directorate also engaged in producing new knowledge, creative works, and solutions that contribute to improved health and environmental outcomes for society at the local, national, and international levels by addressing health challenges. The corporate director coordinates all research and community service activities conducted by the academic and clinical staff and students within the college. The priority areas the office of corporate director is working on are:

• Development of five-year research and community service road map
• Research capacity building
• Collaboration with national and international institutions on research and community services
• Establishing demographic and health survey (DHS) centres to support research and practical teaching
• Engage in active grant award seeking
• Research and community service capacity building
• Provide community services on health and social problems required community service intervention
• Community mobilization, participation, and engage on their health issues

Vision

• To see the College of Health Sciences at Salale University (SIU) a centre of knowledge creation, offering innovative solutions to complex health and biomedical problems at the district, zonal, regional, national, and global levels through creativity, research, and community service by 2030.

Mission

• The Office of the Research and Community Service Corporate Director at the College of Health Sciences, SLU, aims to catalyse research and community service across the College of Health Sciences and the hospital community. It also aims to produce new knowledge, creative works, and solutions that contribute to a better health and environment for society at the local and national levels through addressing health challenges.

Values

The value statements of Research and Community Service Corporate Director are:

• Unwavering resilience: Adaptive, persistent approach to the challenges in delivering the services for the researchers and community servants in the college enterprise
• Uncompromised quality: Design and implement high level quality control and assurance system for both research and community service activities
• Reliable integrity: Honest and transparent communications that foster trust in the college enterprise
• Open approach: Steadfast commitment to lifelong discovery and creativity and to listening for all without judgment
• Collaborative leadership: Decision given with discussion openly on meeting through engagement across whole management system
• Inclusive equity: Ensuring equal respect and recognition for all staff members, contributing to inclusive equity in every aspect of the staff environment of the college and community reside where the university operate
• Gender sensitivity: Insure gender equality and promote females in research and community service activities
• Proactive decision making: Anticipating the risks and challenges and making decision proactively
• Effective technology Use: Avail, enforce and promote maximum technology use in research and community service activities
• Strong collaboration: Collaboration for research and community service with local, national and international institutions
• Effective research findings communication: All research conducted by the staff member of the college promptly communicate through publication, technical reports and policy brief