Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen MD, MSc

Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen is a Senior Program Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She leads the foundation’s maternal immunization initiative. Most recently, Ajoke was Cluster Head at Novartis, Cambridge, where she managed the Phase 2 maternal immunization clinical development program for the Group B streptococcus vaccine.

Ajoke served as Associate Director Vaccine Clinical Research at Merck Research Laboratories where she led the global phase 3 clinical development program of the S. aureus vaccine. She was a key development leader in several vaccine programs in Discovery through phase 3. she coordinated the Child Health and Neglected Diseases program at the German bilateral agency (GIZ), as well as a large multi-center trial on HIV drug resistance monitoring and surveillance in Africa and Asia for the Netherlands Aids Foundation, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ajoke completed her residency in pediatric and adolescent medicine at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and did her pediatric infectious disease fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical School, New York. She holds a M.D. degree from the University of Berlin, a Dr. med. degree from the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University of Hamburg, both in Germany; and a M.Sc. degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine