The acting deputy director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, is resigning from his role at the end of the month.
On Tuesday, Africa CDC Director-General Dr. Jean Kaseya wrote to staff members in an internal email that Ouma would resign at the end of March, referring to his tenure at the organization as “nothing short of remarkable.”
“His contributions have been instrumental in navigating our young organization through unprecedented times, from managing the COVID-19 challenges to laying the foundations of the continental Public Health agency leading health in Africa in line with our new mandate,” he wrote.
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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.
