# Dr Deqo Mohamed (Deeqa Aadan Maxamed)

> Dr Deqo Mohamed: Somali gynaecologist, former CEO of the Dr Hawa Abdi Foundation and founder of Hagarla Institute.

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## Who is she?

Dr Deqo Aden Mohamed is a Somali-born obstetrician and gynaecologist, born in Mogadishu to [Dr Hawa Abdi](/en/people/hawa-abdi/) and Aden Mohamed ([Wikipedia, Deqo Mohamed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deqo_Mohamed)). She studied medicine in Russia and helped at her mother's camp between her studies (same source).

## Hope Village

She went to the United States as a refugee in 2003 and became a citizen in 2008, returning to Somalia in 2007 to work ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deqo_Mohamed)). She worked as a doctor at the Dr Hawa Abdi General Hospital and served as CEO of the Dr Hawa Abdi Foundation (same source). Its Hope Village near Mogadishu offered a hospital, schools, a women's education centre, farming projects and shelter to thousands of displaced people from 1991 to 2020 (same source). In 2010 she and her mother gave a TED talk about the clinic (same source).

## Later work

She founded and leads the Hagarla Institute, co-founded the Somali Cancer Society, and lectures at the African Leadership University School of Business in Rwanda ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deqo_Mohamed)). She was a Yale World Fellow in 2016 (same source). With her mother and sister she was named a Glamour Woman of the Year in 2010 and received a BET humanitarian award in 2012 (same source).

## In short

A Somali doctor who helped run her mother's hospital and camp for the displaced, and now leads health work across Somalia.

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