Merawi Aragaw Tegegne

Advisory board member

Acting Head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division at Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Merawi Aragaw Tegegne is the Acting Head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division at Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention, where he oversees coordination and capacity building of African Union Member States for emergency preparedness and response, and the preparation for medical and nonmedical countermeasures. Dr Tegegne is a medical epidemiologist with experience in health systems and public health programmes, disease surveillance, investigation and management of disasters and outbreaks.