About
Dawit Shawel Abebe is a Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Health, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion. Dawit has a Ph.D. in Public Health/Epidemiology (2014) from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. He also received M.Phil in International Community Health (2009) from the University of Oslo and a Master in Nutrition (2006) from the University of Gent, Belgium. His research focuses on immigrant health, development of mental wellbeing, comorbidities between mental disorders and somatic diseases, and global health. His research is based on quantitative research methods.
For more information about my research projects, please visit this
webpage: https://uni.oslomet.no/disparity/
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Nutrition Community medicine, social medicine Sociology Midical sciences Gynaecology and obstetrics Psychiatry, child psychiatry Communicable diseases Health service and health administration research
Subject areas
Youth Migration health Immigrant health Eating problems Youth and mental health Public health
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Negotiating Early Job Insecurity and Labour Market Exclusion in Europe (NEGOTIATE)
NEGOTIATE is a research project examining the long- and short-term consequences of job insecurity and labour market exclusion of young people.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Lien, Lars;
Yttri, Anca Maria
; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay
(2025).
Inequalities in somatic comorbidities among immigrants and Norwegians with and without common mental disorders: a national register study.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02892-6
Straiton, Melanie Lindsay;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Hauge, Lars Johan
(2024).
Age of migration and common mental disorders among migrants in early adulthood: a Norwegian registry study.
16 p.
BMC Psychiatry.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05963-1
Balieva, Flora Nicol;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Dalgard, Florence; Lien, Lars
(2023).
Risk of developing psychiatric disease among adult patients with skin disease: A 9-year national register follow-up study in Norway.
10 p.
Skin Health and Disease (SHD).
Vol. 3.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ski2.294
Shawel, Samrawit; Baraki, Negga; Alemeshet, Yohanis;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Egata, Gudina
(2023).
Undernutrition and associated factors among adults with mental and neurological disorders in public health hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019: a cross-sectional study.
BMC Psychiatry.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05117-9
Roer, Grethe Emilie; Lien, Lars; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Aaseth, Jan Olav;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
(2023).
The impact of PTSD on risk of cardiometabolic diseases: a national patient cohort study in Norway.
9 p.
BMC Psychiatry.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04866-x
Skarstein, Siv
; Lien, Lars;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
(2022).
The burden of somatic diseases among people with alcohol- and drug use disorders are influenced by mental illness and low socioeconomic status. A registry-based cohort study in Norway.
7 p.
Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
Vol. 165.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.111137
Hynek, Kamila Angelika;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Liefbroer, Aart C.; Hauge, Lars Johan; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay
(2022).
The association between early marriage and mental disorder among young migrant and non-migrant women: a Norwegian register-based study.
11 p.
BMC Women's Health.
Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01836-5
Ekeberg, Karoline ; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2022). Kulturens rolle i diagnostisering av psykiske lidelser. Lundgren, Charlotte (Ed.). Psykisk oppvekst. Barn og unges psykiske helse fra 0-25 år. p. 315-319. Rådet for psykisk helse.
Hynek, Kamila Angelika;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Hollander, Anna-Clara; Liefbroer, Aart C.; Hauge, Lars Johan; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay
(2022).
The association between persistent low parental income during preschool age and mental disorder in adolescence and early adulthood: a Norwegian register-based study of migrants and non-migrants.
BMC Psychiatry.
Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03859-6
Roer, Grethe Emilie; Solbakken, Heidi Hurlen;
Abebe, Dawit Shawel
; Aaseth, Jan; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Lien, Lars
(2021).
Inpatients experiences about the impact of traumatic stress on eating behaviors: an exploratory focus group study.
Journal of Eating Disorders.
Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-021-00480-y
