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Muhammad Ali Pate

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 is the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) at the World Bank Group.[3]

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

On 11 October 2022, Pate was conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).[4]

His appointment as the Minister of State for Health in July 2011[5] followed his role as the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja.[6][7] He resigned from this position, effective from 24 July 2013 to take up the position of Professor in Duke University Global Health Institute, United States.[8][9][10][11] He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy.[12][13] He formerly served as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population.[14] Pate is also the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria.[15][16][17][18][19]

In February 2023, Muhammad Ali Pate was appointed CEO of GAVI - the Vaccine Alliance, which works to provide vaccines in low-income countries.[20]

Early life and education

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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.[6] 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.[21] 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[22] and has a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

Early career

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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.[23] 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.[24] Of note is his initiation of landmark public-private partnership to replace a National Referral Hospital in Lesotho.[25]

Other board, commission, and committee memberships

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  • Co-chair (along with Margaret Kruk[26]), The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. Report was launched on 6 September 2018[27]
  • Member, Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication[28] -ongoing
  • Member, Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa[29] (report 09/2017)
  • Member, Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative[30]
  • Board member, American International Health Alliance,[31] Washington D.C., 2015–2022
  • Board member, Aceso Global,[32] Washington DC 2015–2022
  • Board member, Healthcare Leadership Academy[33]
  • Member, Investment Committee, Flint Atlantic Capital[34]
  • Member, Steering Committee on the Value of Vaccination Research Network, Harvard University[35]
  • 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[36]
  • 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[37]

Recognition

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  • 2012 – Harvard Health Leader, awarded by the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program[38]

Personal life

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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

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Book chapters and technical reports

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate". The Brookings Institution. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate". Management Sciences for Health.
  3. ^ "Nigeria: World Bank Appoints Prof Pate Global Director". Daily Trust. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Full List: 2022 National Honours Award Recipients". The Nation.
  5. ^ "Dr. Pate Assumes Duty, Promises Efficient Service Delivery". Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  6. ^ a b Dugger, Celia W. (12 April 2010). "A Campaign Shows Signs of Progress Against Polio". The New York Times. p. 4.
  7. ^ Getting the "Last Hair" in Nigeria – Muhammad Pate | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Archived 24 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Programs | Johns Hopkins". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Ali Pate, Minister of State, Health, Resigns". Daily Times. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate". africa.harvard.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Muhammad Pate, Former Minister of State for Health of Nigeria". Voices in Leadership. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  12. ^ "Search | Britannica". britannica.com. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  13. ^ "Dr Muhammad Ali Pate – Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute". Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  14. ^ "Search | Britannica". britannica.com. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  15. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate". Management Sciences for Health. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  16. ^ "The facts speak for themselves on Jonathan's administration by Reno Omokri". Vanguard. 24 February 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  17. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate | Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population | Director, Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF)". blogs.worldbank.org. 29 June 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  18. ^ Stephen, John (19 August 2023). "Meet Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria Health Minister". Health Telescope. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  19. ^ "Muhammed Pate, Minister of State resigns". Vanguard. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  20. ^ "Muhammad Ali Pate, un Nigérian pour diriger l'Alliance du vaccin" [Muhammad Ali Pate, a Nigerian to lead the Vaccine Alliance]. Africanews (in French). 14 February 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  21. ^ "Muhammad A. Pate". The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  22. ^ "Duke Fuqua Insights | Duke's Fuqua School of Business".
  23. ^ "Ali Pate gets World Bank, Harvard University appointments". Financial Nigeria International Limited. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  24. ^ "Muhammad A. Pate". The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  25. ^ Yahaya, Ibrahim Muye (10 September 2020). "Muhammad Ali Pate: Global public servant @ 52". Blueprint Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  26. ^ "Margaret e. Kruk's Faculty Website". 5 January 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  27. ^ "High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: Time for a revolution". 5 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  28. ^ "Malaria eradication within a generation: Ambitious, achievable, and necessary". 9 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  29. ^ "Future health in sub-Saharan Africa". 13 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  30. ^ "GPEI-Independent Monitoring Board".
  31. ^ https://www.aiha.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. ^ https://acesoglobal.org/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  33. ^ https://www.thehealthcareleadership.academy/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  34. ^ http://www.flint-atlantic.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  35. ^ "About the VoVRN". Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  36. ^ "Editorial Board". BMJ Global Health. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  37. ^ "Dr Muhammad Ali Pate to become next CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance". Gavi. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  38. ^ "World Bank appoints Nigeria's ex-minister, Muhammad Pate, as global director for health". TheCable. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
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Lancet Global Health Commission profile: https://www.hqsscommission.org/people/muhammad-a-pate/

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