Sheba International, Inc. is a minority-owned global consulting firm that provides services to International, Federal State, Health Care Providers, Universities and Colleges, and Non-Profit Organizations. Our company offers services in areas of Research, Grant Writing and Evaluation, EHR Consulting and Training, Workforce Development and Training, Business Functions, and IT and Web solutions.
It was established as a minority owned corporation since 1996 in Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.A, by a group of professionals with several years of experience. Through modern and effective research methodologies, Sheba responds to the challenges facing both the public and private sectors. In a rapidly changing global environment (social, political, financial and economic), accuracy, consumer-driven, Sheba realizes that quality and strict clients confidentiality is a requirement in today's business environment.
We strive to be trusted advisors to our client's in every service we provide. Not only are we advisors, we will provide the services (such as grant writing, research, training, and IT Implementation) to accomplish our client's business goals.
Dr. Berhie, with over 20 years of experience in government and the private sector, including for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, aspires to assist people and organizations attain great heights.
Dr. Berhie's experience includes holding a position as the former Director of West Virginia Statistical Center where he successfully wrote and was awarded grant funds from the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Health. He has served as the Project Director, Principal Investigator, Project Researcher, and Independent Evaluator for numerous grants from NIH, DOL, NIJ, and SAMHSA. He is currently serving as the Project Director for the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program at Marshall University.
Dr. Girmay Berhie is a tenured professor and the program founder and Director of Health Informatics at Marshall University -- the only program of its kind in the State of West Virginia and is one of the first three programs in the U.S. that is accredited by CAHIIM.
Dr. Berhie lectures in biostatistics, data analytic/data analysis, development and implementation of electronic health care records and Personal Health Records, hospital information systems and implementation, health informatics, health services research, program planning and evaluation, public health research, global health, developing instruments to conduct need assessments, and program evaluation at the formative, process and summative stages.
Dr. Berhie is currently the Executive Director of the non-for-profit organization, "International Medical & Academic Alliance (IMAA)". He is part of a team that started a clinic named Summit International Health Clinic (SIC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January of 2009. IMAA has developed a partnership with Florida Hospital Corporation. As Executive Director, Dr. Berhie is in the process of applying to the US-AID program for $3.5 million to support the expansion of the Summit International Clinic into a specialized hospital that is still under development.
Dr. Berhie is currently engaged in research efforts for:
Dr. Girmay Berhie has a Ph.D in Public Policy and Analysis with a concentration in Research Methodology and a Master's in Social Work from St. Louis University. He has also acquired a Master's in Information Systems from Marshall University. Additional education includes: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Outcome and Effectiveness Research Regression Analysis in Public Health Research, and Applied Multivariate Methods at John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Dr. Berhie has published many articles in the following peer review journals: The Research of National Institute of Justice, The Journal of Health Administration Education, The Journal of African Policy Studies, The Social Science and Medicine and International Journal, The West Virginia Criminal Justice Journal, Strategies for Promoting Pluralism in Education and the Workplace, and The West Virginia Criminal Justice Journal. He also has several publications in progress that he co-authored such as "Efficacy of Telemedicine in Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing".
He is also a published author with his book entitled, "The Multi-Dimensional Development Evaluation Model: A Conceptual Schema for Evaluating Developmental Programs Proposed for Developing Countries" (2012) deals with the development of instruments on the Formative, Process and Summative Evaluation. He has also written a chapter entitled "Health Informatics for the Curios?" in a book titled "Why Health Informatics: A Perspective".