Longtime staffer Dr. Raji Tajudeen has been appointed as acting deputy director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Earlier this week, the head of Africa CDC, Dr. Jean Kaseya, told staff that his acting deputy director-general, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, would resign at the end of the month.
On Thursday, Kaseya told staff, in an internal email seen by Devex, that Tajudeen would serve as his replacement in the meantime before the formal appointment for that position is made.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
