He has also served as the president and CEO of Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, medical director of Whittier Street Health Center and as assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Achebe also serves as medical consultant; Clean water for kids – an NGO that brings fresh water to underserved communities in Liberia; and advisor for Tesfa Health, Bahirdar, Ethiopia.

In 1972, shortly after the end of the Nigerian civil war, the family moved to the U.S. for about five years while his father held professorships at American universities.

[1] His younger sister Nwando Achebe is a historian and professor at Michigan State University.

[4] Chidi Achebe is married to Maureen Okam-Achebe who is a Hematology/Oncology specialist at Harvard University's Brigham and Women's hospital.