Meet the Devex Authors

Douglas Rouse

Douglas Rouse

Douglas Rouse is corporate partnerships director at Save the Children since 2009. He has secured and substantially developed many long-term, shared value and strategic partnerships including GSK, Morrisons, Prudential, RB and Unilever.
Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo

Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo

Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo served as minister of health of Guinea from 2016 to 2018, dealing with the Ebola crisis and subsequent rebuilding of the national health system. He has developed health and supply chain systems in more than 20 African, Caribbean, and Asian countries. Dr. Diallo is a medical doctor and he also holds a master’s degree in international public health from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Abdul Malik

Dr. Abdul Malik

Dr. Abdul Malik is the co-founder/president of the Maldives NCD Alliance; a member of the NCD Alliance’s “Our Views Our Voices” Global Advisory Committee for People Living with NCDs; a former minister of state for gender, family, and social services in the Maldives; and a former undersecretary for health and social policy at the president’s office.
Dr. Abdul Waheed Bhutto

Dr. Abdul Waheed Bhutto

Dr. Abdul Waheed Bhutto is a distinguished academic, accomplished researcher, and visionary administrator with over two decades of experience. He serves as a professor and pro-vice-chancellor at Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), Karachi. His work focuses on climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable development, with numerous high-impact publications. He is widely recognized for his expertise and commitment to education and sustainability. His insights on these topics are frequently featured in international current affairs forums.
Dr. Adaeze Oreh

Dr. Adaeze Oreh

Dr. Adaeze Oreh is a doctoral researcher, Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership fellow, senior fellow at Aspen Global Innovators, consultant family physician, public health expert, and advocate for affordable universal health care. She served as the commissioner for health in Rivers State, Nigeria, between June 2023 and March 2025.
Dr. Ahmad Tarakji

Dr. Ahmad Tarakji

Dr. Ahmad Tarakji is a Syrian American thoracic surgeon in Fresno, California, and past president of the Syrian American Medical Society.
Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma is the acting director at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Aili Kang

Dr. Aili Kang

Dr. Aili Kang is an award-winning conservationist and ecologist, leading on strategy and operations for the Wildlife Conservation Society in China. In 2009, she received the Society for Conservation Biology’s Early Career Conservationist Award for her work on conservation of mammals in the Tibetan steppe of China.
Dr. Alfred Hannig

Dr. Alfred Hannig

Dr. Alfred Hannig is the executive director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.
Dr. Alfred Saah

Dr. Alfred Saah

Dr. Alfred Saah is Executive Director of Scientific Affairs for Vaccines within Global Medical and Scientific Affairs at MSD. His responsibilities within Scientific Affairs for Vaccines include managing the MSD Investigator-Initiated Studies Program, Scientific Input Engagements and related global Congress activities. As an internist, epidemiologist and infectious diseases clinician, he joined MSD in 1997 after careers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and Johns Hopkins University.