Mulugeta Russom

Mulugeta Russom is the Head of Eritrean Pharmacovigilance Centre National Medicines and Food Administration, Asmara, Eritrea.

Mulugeta Russom is a pharmacist, pharmacoepidemiologist, and pharmacovigilance specialist with 15 years’ experience in pharmacovigilance, medical products regulation, health systems strengthening, implementation research and building a full-fledged pharmacovigilance system. Mulugeta is founder and head of the Eritrean Pharmacovigilance Centre that attained WHO maturity level-three in its five years journey. He is ISoP fellow, pharmacovigilance consultant, and completing his PhD in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and University of Bordeaux, France (Sept 2019–April 2024). He served as expert committee in regional and internal levels and is an international trainer in signal assessment. Mulugeta’s key expertise is signal management, analysis of observational studies, and evaluation of product quality defects, benefit-risk and implementation challenges. From 2021 to 2023, Mulugeta served as temporary advisor to the WHO on Medicines Safety and COVID-19 therapeutics. He is also chairperson of the Working Group B of the WHO member-states mechanism for combating substandard and falsified medical products (2021 to-date). Mulugeta is an experienced researcher and associate editor as well as reviewer/editorial board member in several international journals, and published 50+ scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.