Girmay Berhie, Ph.D., MSW, MS-IS, is a tenured professor and the director of the Health Informatics Department at Marshall University.  Dr. Berhie received his Ph.D. in public policy and administration with a concentration in research methodology. He received his master’s of social work from Saint Louis University. Additionally Dr. Berhie has a master’s of science in information systems from Marshall University and took several courses such as biostatistics, principles of epidemiology, intermediate-biostatistics, regression analysis in public health research, applied multivariate methods courses from the John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health: Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, as chair of the department of Health Informatics Advisory Group, he is directing his efforts towards the development of a first of its kind “West Virginia Health Informatics Innovation Center: The Center of Excellence in Health Innovation.” Berhie was the former Director of West Virginia Statistical Center and presently owns and is chair and CEO of “Sheba International, Inc.,” a consulting firm that conducts innovative research, evaluation, grant development, IT services and web development. Dr. Berhie was a consultant and evaluator for Bluefield College Minority Health Institute on the development of proposal entitled “Establishing Exploratory NCMHD Research Centers of Excellence” and Project EXPORT Center of Excellence, funded by the National Center on Minority Health Disparities/National Institutes of Health (NIH)/NCMHD. In the fall 2012, Dr. Berhie co-authored a book titled, “The multi-dimensional developmental evaluation model: a conceptual schema for evaluating developmental programs.” Dr. Berhie’s research interests include quality improvement in the health care system, eHealth technology applications, health information systems interoperability and health information exchange.  

Global health, program planning and evaluation, biostatistics, public health research, health service research, hospital information systems, health informatics and electronic health records (EHR), womens health, school nursing services, drug and alcohol programs, mental health services, youth services, primary care partnerships, sexual health services.