Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa, born on 6 December 1958 in Mango, enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lomé after obtaining a Baccalauréat série D with honors. He was top of his class in the Lomé hospital internship examination, top of his class in the Specialist Diploma in Rheumatology at the Université René Descartes Paris V, and Aggregate Professor of Rheumatology at the age of 37. Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa has been a jury member for eight CAMES aggregation competitions (2002-2016) and has trained 5 aggregate professors. For 22 years, he headed the Rheumatology Department at the CHU Sylvanus Olympio, consulting a thousand patients annually, and for 29 years the École Nationale des Auxiliaires Médicaux de Lomé. He teaches rheumatology and medical writing at the University of Lomé and other African universities. For 5 years, he was coordinator of the Specialised Diploma in Rheumatology, opened in 2018 at the University of Lomé's Faculty of Health Sciences. He chaired the Board of Directors of CDC Afrique for 5 years. With a passion for the humanities (history, philosophy and literature in particular) and a holistic approach to the patient, he is interested in the non-medical aspects of medicine, which he addresses through articles on his website. Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa, Officer of the Order of Academic Palms and Officer of the Order of Mono, was Togo's Minister of Health and Public Hygiene from June 2015 to August 2024. He is married with children.
Distinctions
- Officer of the Order of Academic Palms
- Officer of the Order of Mono
Commitments
2020-2024
- Political coordination of the Lomé Initiative against medicines that kill