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Afework Kassu Gizaw (Ge'ez: አፈወርቅ ካሱ ግዛው; born January 03, 1971) is an Ethiopian Professor,who is the is State Minister of Science and Technology Ministry of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (M.O.S.T), in office since October 2015. Previously, he served in the government of Ethiopia as Director General for Higher Education Research and Academic Affairs at Federal Ministry of Education from January to October 2015, where he played critical leadership role in higher education research and academic affairs. and vice president for Research and Community Services from May 1994 to September 2014.He has been transferred to Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences of Addis Ababa University since October 2014 and serving as Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Prof. Afework joined Department of Chemistry, at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1993, after graduating from the University of Addis Ababa. Conducted survey of medicinal plants; their taxonomic identification; extraction of compounds using organic solvents and run bio assay for their biological activity. Prof. Afework was trained as a biologist and an applied microbiologist at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and earned BSc and MSc degrees in 1993 and 2001, respectively. He holds PhD in Biomedical Sciences from The University of Tokushima, Japan in 2007. He also conducted postdoctoral studies at University of Colorado Denver, USA from 2008 to 2010. His broader research involvements include the epidemiology, immunology and molecular biology of infectious diseases with emphasis on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, intestinal parasitoses, sexually transmitted infections and other bacterial infections, etc, as demonstrative in over 140 peer reviewed scientific publications in peer reviewed journals in Ethiopia and elsewhere in the world. And also he has been serving as anonymous reviewer for large number of national and international peer reviewed journals publishing articles in the areas of infectious diseases, microbiology, immunology, nutrition, public health, health services. Prof. Afework is a member of several professional bodies including Ethiopian Public Health Laboratory Association,Ethiopian Society of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Ethiopian Medical Association, Biological society of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Space Science Society, American Society of Microbiology, and Japanese Society for Bacteriology. He is a Life Member of Ethiopian public Health Association, Ethiopian Red Cross Society, and Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia.

Prof. afework was elected as State Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia by the House of Ministers on 26 October, 2015.

Assistant professor at the University of Gondar
In 2001, Afework worked in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Taught medical microbiology, medical parasitology, general biology and immunology to medical and health science students. Performed diagnostic laboratory bench work in bacteriological culture and sensitivity tests, microscopy, medical parasitology and serology/immunology sections of the Gondar Hospital Laboratory. Involving in various epidemiological, biomedical, clinical and health service researches. Published over 70 scientific papers in various journals and also presented the findings in various scientific conferences.