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Dawit Shawel Abebe

Dawit Shawel Abebe

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 32, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: N050.125
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 37 834
E-mail
  • dawit.abebe@oslomet.no
Affiliation

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/

 

 

Field of study

Youth   Migration health   Immigrant health   Eating problems   Youth and mental health   Public health

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Valdez-Aguilar, Mariana; Conklin, Jamie L.; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2025). Engaging migrants and immigrants in genetics research. Nature Genetics. Vol. 57.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02373-1

Roer, Grethe Emilie; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Aaseth, Jan; Haugen, Morten; Lien, Lars (2025). Metabolic Syndrome and Associated Risk Factors in Norwegian Trauma-Exposed Inpatients: A Cross-Sectional Comparison with Blood Donors. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity. Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.2147/dmso.s536015

Agrawal, Arpana; Bulik, Cynthia M; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Andreassen, Ole; Atkinson, Elizabeth G; Choi, Karmel W; Corvin, Aiden; Davies, Helena L; Davis, Lea K; Docherty, Anna R; Edenberg, Howard J; Franke, Barbara; Gelernter, Joel; Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola; Hettema, John M; Hjerling-Leffler, Jens; Huang, Hailiang; Johnson, Emma C; Lewis, Cathryn M; Lu, Yi; Lynall, Mary-Ellen; Martin, Joanna; McIntosh, Andrew M; Montalvo-Ortiz, Janitza L; Mullins, Niamh; Nievergelt, Caroline M; O'Connell, Kevin S; O'Donovan, Michael C; Okewole, Adeniran; Peterson, Roseann E; Posthuma, Danielle; Sebat, Jonathan; Smoller, Jordan W; Sud, Reeteka; Viswanath, Biju; Walters, James T R; Won, Hyejung; Wray, Naomi R; Sullivan, Patrick F (2025). The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: discoveries and directions. The Lancet Psychiatry. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00124-5

Bramness, Jørgen Gustav; Lid, Torgeir Gilje; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Lien, Lars; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2025). Predictors of alcohol use disorder in patients with hypertension: a national registry-based cohort study. BMC Public Health. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23579-2

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

Tangelder, Yonne ; Johansen, Jennifer Drummond ; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2025). Resilience and mental health among children and youth with an immigrant background in Europe: A scoping review. Children and Youth Services Review.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108499

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. BMC Psychiatry. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05963-1

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. BMC Psychiatry. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04866-x

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

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. Skin Health and Disease (SHD). Vol. 3.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ski2.294



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Research reports

Helgesen, Marit Kristine; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Schou, Arild (2017). Oppmerksomhet mot barn og unge i folkehelsearbeidet: Nullpunktsundersøkelse for Program for folkehelsearbeid settes i verk. ISBN: 9788283092165. 165 p. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-

Helgesen, Marit Kristine; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Schou, Arild (2017). Oppmerksomhet mot barn og unge i folkehelsearbeidet. Nullpunktsundersøkelse for Program for folkehelse i kommunene settes i verk. Marit K. Helgesen, Dawit S. Abebe og Arild Schou Samarbeidsrapport NIBR/NOVA 2017. ISBN: 9788283092165. 169 p. HIOA -NIBR/NOVA.

Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2014). Developmental Trends and Longitudinal Predictors of Eating Problems from Adolescence to Young Adulthood:A Population-Based, Longitudinal Study of Females and Males in Norway. ISBN: 9788282649124. Akademika forlag.

Seippel, Ørnulf; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Strandbu, Åse (2012). Å trene, trener, har trent? En longitudinell undersøkelse av sammenhengen mellom treningsvaner i tenårene og tidlig voksen alder. ISBN: 9788278944424. 105 p. NOVA - Norsk institutt for forskning om oppvekst, velferd og aldring.
http://www.hioa.no/content/download/45465/674678/f



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Dissemination

Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2024). De er redd forskerne glemmer minoriteter.
https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2024-08-19/de-er-

Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2024). Innvandrere og minoriteter er kraftig underrepresentert i forskning.
https://www.khrono.no/innvandrere-og-minoriteter-e

Straiton, Melanie Lindsay; Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Ekeberg, Karoline (2024). Bruk av psykiske helsetjenester blant personer med innvandrerbakgrunn – et fokus på kvinner. Åpent seminar . Folkehelseinstituttet.

Roer, Grethe Emilie; Lien, Lars; Bolstad, Ingeborg; Aaseth, Jan; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2022). The impact of PTSD on risk of cardiometabolic diseases and the moderating effect of socioeconomic status, alcohol use disorder and depression: A National Patient Cohort study in Norway. Nasjonal sykepleierkonferanse innen psykisk helse og rus. Norsk Sykepleierforbund (NSF).

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel (2022). Psykisk helse hos barn med innvandrerbakgrunn i Norge. Lundgren, Charlotte (Ed.). Psykisk oppvekst. Barn og unges psykiske helse fra 0-25 år. p. 223-231. Rådet for psykisk helse.

Mamelund, Svenn-Erik ; Haugen, Trine B. ; Stefansen, Kari ; Turner, Lena Magnusson ; Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk ; Andersen, Bengt ; Sørvoll, Jardar ; Gubrium, Erika ; Huang, Lihong ; Torheim, Liv Elin ; Holmen, Heidi ; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira (2021). Vi vil ha en nytenkende rektor.
https://khrono.no/vi-vil-ha-en-nytenkende-rektor/6

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Hollander, Anna-Clara; Liefbroer, Aart; Hauge, Lars Johan; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay (2021). Early childhood low parental income and the risk of mental disorder in adolescence and early adulthood. A register study of migrants and non-migrants. NNMF seminar. Norsk Nettverk for Migrasjonsforskning.

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay (2021). Inequalities in the risk of comorbidity between mental and somatic diseases among immigrants and Norwegians. 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health. Universitetet i Bergen.

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Hollander, Anna-Clara; Liefbroer, Aart; Hauge, Lars Johan; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay (2021). Preschool persistent low parental income and mental disorder in adolescence and early adulthood. 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health. Universitetet i Bergen.

Hynek, Kamila Angelika; Abebe, Dawit Shawel ; Liefbroer, Aart; Hauge, Lars Johan; Straiton, Melanie Lindsay (2021). Early marriage and mental disorder among young migrant and non-migrant women. 10th ESFR Conference. Oxford Brookes University.



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