Kirubel Manyazewal Mussie was a Visiting Student at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. He is a Bioethicist with an interdisciplinary background combining biomedical ethics (PhD, University of Basel), international community health (MPhil, University of Oslo), and social work (BA, Addis Ababa University).

He is an Editor of the African Journal of Bioethics, serves as a reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals, and provides consultation on a WHO health policy review project (in Switzerland) and for clinical ethics committees in Ethiopia. His broad research interests include healthcare analysis, bioethics, ageing, migrant health, decision-making (in healthcare), and research methods.