It’s been an eventful few months for Dr. Jean Kaseya, a Congolese medical doctor who took office in April as the new director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the end of last year, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, or CHAI, decided not to renew his contract as senior country director in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In early February, Kaseya took the organization to his country’s labor court.
But then Kaseya’s fortunes shifted dramatically. On Feb. 19, he was appointed as the surprise pick to the most prominent pan-African public health posting.
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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.
