Muhammad Ali Pate

Muhammad Ali Pate (born 6 September, 1968) is a Nigerian physician and politician. He is American board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He was appointed as Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Nigeria in 2023. Before taking office, he was a professor of public health leadership in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University. He also served as the director of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for women, children, and adolescents at the World Bank Group, he worked in various roles across several regions for the World Bank Group beginning in 2000.

Pate served as the Executive Director of Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency, and was later appointed as Nigeria's Minister of State for Health in July 2011. He resigned on 24 July 2013 to take up a professorship at Duke University Global Health Institute. He later served as the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy and as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population. Provided by Wikipedia