Taji Phillips is an experienced finance and health research professional currently serving as an Analyst at Deerfield Management since May 2024. Prior to this role, Taji worked at Jefferies as an Equity Research Senior Associate and Equity Research Associate from February 2022 to May 2024. Taji also held positions at Accenture as a Senior Consulting Analyst and Consulting Analyst between September 2020 and January 2022. Earlier experience includes a Research Assistant role at the Duke Global Health Institute from October 2019 to August 2020 and a Graduate Research Assistant position at Jacaranda Health from October 2018 to October 2019. Taji holds a Master of Science in Global Health and a Bachelor of Science in Biology with minors in Global Health and Chemistry from Duke University, where studies were completed between 2014 and 2020. Education was initiated at Dwight School, graduating in 2014.