Yakob Seman Ahmed [MPH, MBA, PhD]

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Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Yakob Seman Ahmed [MPH, MBA, PhD] is a health policy expert with over 15 years of experience strengthening health systems in low- and middle-income countries through government and nonprofit sectors. As a country director of Reachanother Foundation Yakob is a leading advocate for the prevention, treatment, and aftercare of Spina Bifida in Ethiopia and beyond. Yakob spearheaded the Rotary International High-Risk Prevention Project implementation and actively promotes large-scale food fortification as a key public health intervention in Ethiopia.