Fifa A Rahman

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ABOUT FIFA A RAHMAN

Fifa A Rahman PhD is Principal Consultant at Matahari Global Solutions, a consultancy firm focused on global health solutions with local relevance. She is a specialist global health lawyer with a PhD in political economy and trade-related intellectual property for biologic medicines. At Matahari, she leads a multinational team of eight working across multiple key projects, including on developing the African Union health workforce compact, on gender in public health emergencies, decolonial grantmaking, and critical path analyses for novel diagnostics, including those for chlamydia/gonorrhea and TB. She was Pandemic Negotiations Consultant for Africa Group negotiators on the Pandemic Treaty negotiations from January to August 2024. She is also on the WHO Guideline Development Group for SARS-CoV-2 testing and the WHO Recommendations Development Group for Rapid Diagnostic Test Accessibility Considerations for professional use and self-tests. Her work across these roles has entailed the need for effective and culturally competent communication with health ministers, diplomats, and officials at global health agencies, as well as communities of people living with the diseases. These partnerships have involved the building of genuine cross-sector camaraderie and co-creating work that is both technically robust and inclusive.Fifa has written in numerous publications including The Diplomat (on a roadmap for South-South coordination), PLOS Global Public Health (on community-friendly diagnostics), and the British Medical Journal (on a universal definition of pandemics), and have been quoted in and interviewed for The New York Times, Devex, Bloomberg News, Nature, Times Radio, POLITICO and others. Languages: English, Malay, Spanish (in order of fluency)