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Muhammad Ali Pate
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Muhammad Ali Pate at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China 2012
Minister of Health and Social Welfare
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 August 2023
PresidentBola Tinubu
Minister of StateIziaq Adekunle Salako
Preceded byOsagie Ehanire
Minister of State for Health
In office
14 July 2011 – 23 July 2013
PresidentGoodluck Jonathan
MinisterOnyebuchi Chukwu
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency of Nigeria
In office
14 November 2008 – 11 July 2011
Personal details
Born (1968-09-06) 6 September 1968 (age 56)
Misau, Northern Region (now in Bauchi State), Nigeria
Political partyAll Progressives Congress
Children6
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • physician

Muhammad Ali Pate CON (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.[1][2] He formerly served as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population.[3] He is as well the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) at the World Bank Group.[4] Pate is also the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria.[5][6][7][8][9]

On Tuesday, 11th October, 2022, Pate, along with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,[10] and Amina J. Mohammed[11] were conferred with Nigeria's national honours. Pate was conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).[12]

In 2019, Pate was appointed Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[13] His appointment as the Minister of State for Health in July 2011[14] followed his role as the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja.[15][16] 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.[17][18][19][20] He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy.[21][22]

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.[23]

In February 2023, Muhammad Ali Pate was appointed CEO of GAVI - the Vaccine Alliance, which works to provide vaccines in low-income countries.[24]

Early life and education

Muhammad Ali Pate was born on 6 September 1968 in present-day Misau local government area of Bauchi State in Nigeria and was raised in the northern part of the country.[15] He is the son of a Fulani herdsman.

Pate graduated from high school to enter the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) medical school in Kaduna State, Nigeria. He graduated from ABU and moved to Gambia where he worked in rural hospitals for a few years. He then became a fellow in infectious diseases at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States.[25] He is an American Board-Certified MD in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with an MBA (Health Sector Concentration) from Duke University, United States. Prior to this, he studied at the University College London[26] and has a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

Early career

Prior to his appointment to the NPHCDA in 2008, Pate had an extensive career spanning over 10 years at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and held several senior positions including Senior Health Specialist and Human Development Sector Coordinator for the East Asia/Pacific Region and Senior Health Specialist for the African Region.[27] While at the World Bank, a major project led by Pate was the far-reaching health sector reform programmes in Africa, East Asia and other regions of the World Bank.[28] Of note is his initiation of landmark Public–private partnership to replace a National Referral Hospital in Lesotho.[29]

Other board, commission, and committee memberships

  • Co-chair (along with Margaret Kruk[30]), The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. Report was launched on September 6, 2018[31]
  • Member, Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication[32] -ongoing
  • Member, Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa[33] (report 09/2017)
  • Member, Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative[34]
  • Board member, American International Health Alliance,[35] Washington D.C. 2015–2022
  • Board member, Aceso Global,[36] Washington DC 2015–2022
  • Board member, Healthcare Leadership Academy[37]
  • Member, Investment Committee, Flint Atlantic Capital[38]
  • Member, Steering Committee on the Value of Vaccination Research Network, Harvard University[39]
  • Member, Steering Committee, Study on the Assessment of the Impact of Polio Eradication on Routine Immunization and Primary Health Care, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2011–2012
  • Editorial advisory board, BMJ Global Health[40]
  • Advisory Board member, Ethiopian International Primary Health Care Institute
  • Senior Fellow of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI), Inducted at Yale University, New Haven Connecticut, April 2015
  • Co-chair, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria[41]

Recognition

  • 2012 – Harvard Health Leader, awarded by the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program[42]

Personal life

Pate is married and has four daughters and two sons. He resides in northern Nigeria. He is a practising Muslim. Pate holds the title as "Chigarin Misau" in the village where he was born, which is equivalent to a local knighthood.

Recent publications

Book chapters and technical reports

  • Baris, E., Silverman, R., Wang, H., Zhao, F., Pate, M., Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Healthcare in the post-COVID-19 era. Published by the World Bank, April 2022.
  • Liam Donaldson, Thomas Frieden, Susan Goldstein, Muhammad Pate. Every virus. 17th Report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). June 2021.
  • Liam Donaldson, Thomas Frieden, Susan Goldstein, Muhammad Pate. Every virus. 16th Report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). June 2019.
  • Liam Donaldson, Thomas Frieden, Susan Goldstein, Muhammad Pate. Every virus. 15th Report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). June 2018.
  • Liam Donaldson, Thomas Frieden, Susan Goldstein, Muhammad Pate. Every virus. 14th Report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). June 2017.
  • Emmanuel Jimenez and Muhammad Pate. Reaping a Demographic Dividend in Africa's Largest Country: Nigeria. In: Hans Groth & John F. May, eds. "Africa's Population: In Search of a Demographic Dividend", Dordrecht: Springer Publishers, 2017 (ISBN 978-3-319-46887-7).
  • Muhammad Pate. Contributor to "The Art and Science of Delivery": McKinsey's Voices on Society, Published 2013 in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the Skoll World Forum.
  • Pate, Muhammad Ali; Gyapong, John O.; Dowdle, Walter R.; Hopkins, Adrian; Hozumi, Dairiku; Malecela, Mwelecele; Tyson, Stewart (2011). "Group Report: Designing Elimination or Eradication Initiatives that Interface Effectively with Health Systems". Disease Eradication in the 21st Century. pp. 273–286. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262016735.003.0019. ISBN 978-0-262-01673-5.
  • Pate, Muhammad Ali; Schoppig, Joel (2012). "Africa's Growing Giant – Population Dynamics in Nigeria". Population Dynamics in Muslim Countries. pp. 211–224. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27881-5_13. ISBN 978-3-642-27880-8.
  • Pate M.A., Beeharry G., Abramson W. Improving health care access for the poor: A case study of the Washington, D.C. public health care reforms. Presented at the 4th Europe and the Americas conference on health sector reforms, February 2002, Malaga, Spain.

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  12. ^ "Full List: 2022 National Honours Award Recipients". The Nation.
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  14. ^ "Dr. Pate Assumes Duty, Promises Efficient Service Delivery". Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  15. ^ a b Dugger, Celia W. (12 April 2010). "A Campaign Shows Signs of Progress Against Polio". The New York Times. p. 4.
  16. ^ Getting the "Last Hair" in Nigeria – Muhammad Pate | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Archived 24 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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  39. ^ "About the VoVRN". Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  40. ^ "Editorial Board". BMJ Global Health. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  41. ^ "Dr Muhammad Ali Pate to become next CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance". Gavi. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  42. ^ "World Bank appoints Nigeria's ex-minister, Muhammad Pate, as global director for health". TheCable. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

Lancet Global Health Commission profile: https://www.hqsscommission.org/people/muhammad-a-pate/

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