Dr Amanuel Hagos is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Justice Health Research Program at the School of Population Health, UNSW. He is also a project manager for NHMRC funded 'Ageing in Prison Longitudinal Study (A-PLUS)' looking at health and frailty trajectories of justice-involved older adults. Before his current role and during the time of his PhD candidature, he worked as a project officer in the school of psychiatry, UNSW, coordinating a research project on improving palliative care for people with intellectual disability.

Amanuel has a unique combination of strong industry experience in the non-profit sector in health and emerging research capability in public health centred on addressing health inequity among priority population including justice-involved older adults, people with intellectual disability and those living with HIV/AIDS.

His extensive experience in public health in the non-profit sector spanned from health services and health systems program management to operational research, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, overseeing health grants (projects valued at AUD $69 million) and evaluation of health and nutrition services. He held senior advisory and managerial roles in large public health programs with international organisations such as the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland (Irish Aid), Save the Children, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and IntraHealth International. 

With a foundation in quantitative research and a progressive application of qualitative research, Amanuel has developed strong research skills in mixed methods research. His research interests encompass ageing and justice health, palliative care and intellectual disability, health equity, intellectual disability and the criminal justice system, integrated care, and community health services.