Muhammad Ali Pate
Muhammad Ali Pate (born 6 September 1968) is a Nigerian physician, politician, and the current Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Nigeria appointed in 2023. He also serves as a Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University. He formerly served as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population He is as well the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) at the World Bank Group. Pate is also the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria.On Tuesday, 11th October, 2022, Pate, along with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Amina J. Mohammed were conferred with Nigeria's national honours. Pate was conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).
In 2019, Pate was appointed Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His appointment as the Minister of State for Health in July 2011 followed his role as the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja. He resigned from this position, effective from 24th July, 2013 to take up the position of Professor in Duke University Global Health Institute, United States. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy.
On 1st September, 2021, Pate returned to Harvard University as a Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In February 2023, Muhammad Ali Pate was appointed CEO of GAVI - the Vaccine Alliance, which works to provide vaccines in low-income countries. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Manica Balasegaram, Pete Boriello, Jeremy Farrar, Alberto Giubilini, Mark Harrison, Marie Paule Kieny, Claas Kirchhelle, Joanne Liu, Kevin Outterson, Muhammad Ali Pate, Mathieu Poirier, John Arne Røttingen, Julian Savulescu, Rebecca Sugden, Visanu Thamlikitkul, Isaac Weldon, Sally Davies, Steven J. Hoffman
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