Early career: After college, Tedros, joined the Ministry of Health of the Derg as a junior public health expert.[14] After the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tedros moved to London for graduate school.
The Derg (Ge'ez: ደርግ, "committee" or "council"), officially the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, was a Marxist-Leninist military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.