Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham is pharmacist, Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at King’s College London, Founder and Academic Lead of King’s College London Fight the Fakes and Pharmacy Working Group Lead for the African Diaspora Malaria Initiative. She leads her research group 'The Raimi-Abraham Group' where her primary research focus is on addressing pharmaceutical challenges in infectious diseases.

Dr Raimi-Abraham is the first graduate of the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy to be awarded a PhD, the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Woman in STEM Precious Award and the 2022 Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain (APS) Emerging Scientist Award.

Dr Raimi-Abraham is the FIPWiSE (International Pharmaceutical Federation Women in Science and Education) Chair, serves as an APS Board Member and a Scientific Advisor to Daye.

Before her current position at King's, Dr Raimi-Abraham held positions at University College London (UCL) as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) postdoctoral researcher position and at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as a seconded Quality National Expert.

Dr Raimi-Abraham has an extensive and original public engagement and media portfolio which includes uniquely exploring the use of street art to engage the public with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and TEDx talk (TEDx Talk title 'Elements of Change: Becoming an Independent Researcher').

Dr Raimi-Abraham is passionate about promoting pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences to the public and wider communities for example working with BBC News Africa on their campaign to raise awareness on the impact of fake medicines in Africa “How can you tell the difference between real and fake medicines? ”, “Spotting fake medicines with your mobile phone”, “ BBC News – People Fixing the World” (produced by Hannah Gelbart), invited to contribute to the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Wise (Women in Science and Education) Words with a focus on the theme Women Shaping Pharmaceutical Sciences series and as a consultant the 'Go and No-go pills' Somerset House 24/7 exhibition, visited by ~35,000 people (October 2019 – February 2020). Dr Raimi-Abraham is also actively involved in a number of outreach activities, such as giving presentations at schools.

Dr Raimi-Abraham’s passion projects include her start-up Scientifically Speaking and Monday Science (selected in the top 25 Best UK Science Podcast by FeedSpot and recently listed on Amazon Music’s Best Podcast of Week), a podcast which discusses the latest in Science, Health and Technology.

Social Media

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok - @DrBahijjaRaimiA

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbahijjaraimiabraham/

King’s College London Website - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/bahijja-raimi-abraham

The Raimi-Abraham Group Website - https://www.theraimiabrahamgroup.com/ (social media details available via website)