Biography

Raji Tajudeen is a Medical Doctor with postgraduate qualifications in Pediatrics and Public Health. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians and African Public Health Leaders Fellow of the Chatham House Royal Institute of International Affairs. Additionally, he has academic and working knowledge of Health System Management, Health Diplomacy, Maternal and Child Health, and Health in Humanitarian Emergencies.

Before joining the African Union, He worked as a Pediatrician at the Institute of Child Health and Department of Pediatrics of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria Nigeria. He joined the African Union Commission in 2010 as a Pediatrician at the Medical and Health Services Directorate.

He was a Member of the Implementation Working Group of the Africa CDC. He later became the Interim Head of Administration and Management and currently the Interim Head of Public Health Institute and Research of the Africa CDC.

He have published articles and coauthored a chapter in a medical textbook.