Mohammed Ali Mahdi, MD, MIH

Country Director, Swaziland

Dr. Mohammed Ali Mahdi is the country director for EGPAF in Swaziland. He joined EGPAF in 2006, first as the office’s technical advisor supervising prevention, care, and treatment operations. Prior to joining EGPAF, Dr. Mahdi acted as a prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) technical director for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Ethiopia, where he worked closely with health facilities to support the implementation of HIV prevention programs; assisted in the development of national prevention guidelines; and organized and facilitated training courses on PMTCT services. Dr. Mahdi received his degree in medicine from Addis Ababa University, Gondar College of Medical Sciences; a certificate of specialty in pediatrics and child health from Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Medicine; and a master’s degree in international health from Copenhagen University in Denmark.