Daniel Yilma is academician and a practicing Internal Medicine physician in Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC). He obtained his PhD in University of Copenhagen. He established clinical trial unit at JUMC and conducts infectious disease research mainly on HIV, Tuberculosis, COVID-19 and malaria . Daniel joined IDDO/WWARN as a WHO/TDR fellow  and continued his research as a University of Cape Town (UCT) post-doctoral fellow within the Southern African Centre of IDDO based at the UCT Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy. He serves as member of malaria case management team at national level. He works with WWARN and other collaborators to find safe, effective and simplified malaria treatment and diagnostic tools.