Meron’s research interests span global health, health equity, and the exploration of barriers and facilitators within programs dedicated to promoting health for diverse populations. Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences program at Western University, she has delved into numerous research projects addressing critical issues. These projects include the identification of barriers and facilitators to vaccination program implementation and scale-up, such as Meningitis A in African belt countries, HPV in Rwanda, global Polio initiatives, and the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities in Canada. Meron’s community-based research engagement extends to collaborating with communities to generate knowledge on strengths-based photography and developing a strategy to address substance-related harms, with a focus on creating a timely and relevant solution for alerting about such harms. During her graduate studies, she developed foundational knowledge through courses encompassing conflict and health, global health policies, as well as the philosophical foundations of health promotion and qualitative research. She has collaborated with teams across prominent organizations and institutions including The Global Health & Innovation Lab (UWO), Public Health Ontario, the University of Toronto, and the Federation of Black Canadians.  In her thesis work, she aims to discover evidence-based strategies that have successfully reached the most vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan African countries, to inform other nations facing challenges of low childhood vaccine coverage and high mortality rates among children under five.