Professor Aliko Baba Ahmed, is the Director Public Health England (PHE), East of England, UK, Associate Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security. He is a senior fellow and professor at Cambridge and Staffordshire universities. He is also a public health physician, epidemiologist and health strategist with over 24 years’ experience in clinical, academic and public health practice.
He led and managed several public health programmes with demonstrable improvements in outcomes. His global health experiences include fieldwork as a medical epidemiologist with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and supporting national disease control programmes.
He is a member of the global health committees of the Faculty of Public Health and PHE, Chair of the Public Health Africa Initiative, and the co-convener of the Better Health for Africa Initiative.
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