Anteneh Asefa is a health systems researcher with expertise in global health issues including maternal, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. He completed his MPH at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and his PhD at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne (Australia), which examined health system constraints to promoting respectful maternity care in Ethiopian hospitals and approaches to mitigating them, using the theoretical framework of complex adaptive systems.

He has worked in Ethiopian universities as an assistant lecturer and later as a lecturer and assistant professor. He has also worked as a Lecturer (Priority Setting and Planning in Public Health; Global Health Security and Sustainability; Epidemiology; and Evidence-Based Practice) and Research Associate (various health policy and systems research projects) at the University of Melbourne. He has experience and interest in global health, particularly implementation research aimed at ending preventable deaths, especially in low-income settings. To date, he has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on several regional, national and multi-centre research projects, with findings published in peer-reviewed journals. As part of his efforts and achievements in global health, he has been selected as a Fellow of The Emerging Voices for Global Health; The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders; The Maternal Health Young Champions; The Policy Communication Fellows; and The New Voices in Global Health.