Interests

Advocacy & Outreach

Alzheimer's Disease

Anthropology

Biomarkers

Care & Support

Brain Health & Dementia Prevention

Public Health & Epidemiology

Frontotemporal Dementia

Geriatrics

Health Economics & Policy

Psychiatry

Sleep

Vascular Dementia

Mental Health & Well-being

Cohort

2023

Djibril Moussa, MBBS, MSc

Psychiatrist and public health specialist

Address dementia care and promote health aging by bringing a creative and realistic public advocacy into old age and healthy aging.

Current Work

Djibril is a psychiatrist and global health specialist. His interests are in brain health, mental health of the geriatric populations and health systems. He conducts research in brain health and non-communicable diseases.

Personal Hero

My mother

Words of Strength

Active listener, game changer, implementer and public figure

Vision

Address dementia care and promote health aging by bringing a creative and realistic public advocacy into old age and healthy aging. This includes prioritizing geriatric medicine and mental health services by integrating preventive and therapy.

Motivation

Dementia is growing public health problem in Djibril's country. Due to increasing life expectancy many people are aging, and dementia is becoming common. By this fact, he aims to bring lasting public health measure in dementia care.

Education & Experience

Djibril completed medical school at Amoud University in Borama Somalia. After working five years as assistant in psychiatry and setting up mental health services he went to obtain international health training at institute of global health of Heidelberg University in Germany. He went to serve doctors without borders in Nigeria as a public health specialist and then moved to Addis Ababa Ethiopia for a residency in psychiatry at Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College. He is the founding head of department of psychiatry and public health academic at Amoud University in Somalia.