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Coverage & profiles
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Reuters profiled his appointment to lead Somalia’s COVID-19 response and his frontline record through outbreaks and conflict. The report uses the earlier form of his name, Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed.
A profile of his leadership at De Martino Public Hospital, his role as national incident manager for COVID-19 and his earlier Ministry of Health service.
A graduate spotlight on completing his PhD in Demography and Social Sciences, and on why social health insurance design is applied demography.
A profile of his studies in public health and tropical medicine and his work in health systems, emergency response and Somalia’s roadmap toward Universal Health Coverage.
His profile as the Society’s Country Ambassador for Somalia.
His mixed-methods study, listed in the CHW Central resource library for community health workforce practitioners.
Contributions
How patient performance, visible quality and professional conviction made hospital protocols work at De Martino Public Hospital.
Presentation at the World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation.
Media kit
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Dr Abdulrazaq Yusuf Ahmed (Dr Jalaaludiin) is a Somali physician, health economist and demographer, and the Founding Director General of Somalia’s Social Health Insurance Authority (SHIA). He previously led De Martino National Public Hospital in Mogadishu and served as Somalia’s National Incident Manager for COVID-19.
Dr Abdulrazaq Yusuf Ahmed, known as Dr Jalaaludiin, is a Somali physician, health economist and demographer whose work connects clinical medicine, public health and health-system governance. He is the Founding Director General of Somalia’s Social Health Insurance Authority (SHIA), leading the country’s transition toward financial protection, strategic purchasing and Universal Health Coverage. From 2020 to 2025 he was Director General of De Martino National Public Hospital in Mogadishu, and from 2020 to 2022 Somalia’s National Incident Manager for COVID-19. He coordinates the Postgraduate Tropical Medicine Programme at Benadir University, holds the rank of Associate Professor, and founded the RIYAADA Institute for Leadership and Governance. He holds doctorates in Healthcare Economics and in Demography and Social Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dr Abdulrazaq Yusuf Ahmed (Dr Jalaaludiin) waa dhakhtar Soomaaliyeed, khabiir ku ah dhaqaalaha caafimaadka iyo cilmiga dadka, ahna Agaasimaha Guud ee aasaasay Hay’adda Caymiska Caafimaadka Bulshada (SHIA) ee Soomaaliya.
