2017 World Fellow Dr. Ibrahim Fawzi Ajami will discuss “changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practice” as part of Lunchtime Talks at the Yale School of Medicine, co-hosted by the Council on African Studies.
Ibrahim Ajami is a Liberian medical doctor who has lived in Liberia his entire life, surviving its 14-year civil war and two-year long Ebola crisis. During the outbreak, Ajami created an initiative to raise awareness of the virus in communities on the outskirts of Monrovia, in addition to working in an Ebola Treatment Unit as a volunteer. In 2017, he founded the Medical Consortium Outreach Program (M-COP), which seeks to combat the lack of immediate access to primary healthcare in Liberia by stemming illnesses at their source. Ajami is also a Fellow of the President’s Young Professional Program (PYPP), an initiative started by the president of Liberia to identify and develop the country’s most promising future public service leaders. As a PYPP Fellow, he has worked under the direct mentorship of the Liberian Minister of Health, serving as a policy advisor, participating in health planning sessions with the WHO and UNICEF, and representing the minister at public functions and symposiums. Ajami completed his medical education at the A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine - University of Liberia, and currently serves as an intern doctor at the largest referral hospital in the country. He is currently a fellow of the 2017 Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.