The civil war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which lasted from November 2020 to November 2022, left as many as 600 thousand people dead. The war fought by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on one side and Ethiopian and Eritrean forces on the other also had a devastating impact on the health-system in Tigray revealed using data collected by Tigray health workers and analyzed by their global health research collaborators.. That’s the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories, with guests James J. Cochran and Mulugeta Gebregziabher.

James J. Cochran is associate dean for research with the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College. He is also a professor of statistics and the Rogers-Spivey Research Fellow.

Mulugeta Gebregziabher is professor of biostatistics and vice chair for academic programmes at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a health scientist investigator and methods core leader with the Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Center of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development, and director of the Region IV Public Health Training Center for South Carolina.

The views expressed in this episode only represent the opinions of Gebregziabher and Cochran and not any institutions they represent. “We acknowledge the brave efforts of the Tigray health workers and our global health research collaborators.”