Muhammad Ali Pate Explained

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.^{[1] [2]} He is also the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) at the World Bank Group.^[3]

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

His appointment as the Minister of 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

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 number of 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 degree in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

Early career

Prior to his appointment into the NPHCDA (National Primary Health Care Development Agency) in 2008, Pate had an extensive career spanning over 10 years at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He also 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 programs in Africa, East Asia and other regions of the World Bank.^[24] Worthy 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

• 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

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

Personal life

Pate is married and has four daughters and two sons. He resides in northern Nigeria and 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

• Nkengasong. John N.. Raji. Tajudeen. Ferguson. Stephanie L.. Pate. Muhammad A.. Williams. Michelle A.. Nursing leadership in Africa and health security. eClinicalMedicine. 10 June 2021. 36. 100930. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100930. 34169244. 8207179.
• Bali. Sulzhan. Stewart. Kearsley A. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Long shadow of fear in an epidemic: fearonomic effects of Ebola on the private sector in Nigeria. BMJ Global Health. 9 November 2016. 1. 3. e000111. 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000111. 28588965. 5321397.
• Moon. Suerie. Suerie Moon. Sridhar. Devi. Pate. Muhammad A. Jha. Ashish K.. Clinton. Chelsea. Delaunay. Sophie. Edwin. Valnora. Fallah. Mosoka. Fidler. David P.. Garrett. Laurie. Goosby. Eric. Gostin. Lawrence O. Heymann. David L. Lee. Kelley. Leung . Gabriel M.. Morrison. J Stephen. Saavedra. Jorge. Tanner. Marcel. Leigh. Jennifer A.. Hawkins. Benjamin. Woskie. Liana R. Piot. Peter. Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. The Lancet. 2015. 386. 10009. 2204–2221. 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0. 26615326. 7137174.
• Okoli. Ugo. Morris. Laura. Oshin. Adetokunbo. Pate. Muhammad A.. Aigbe. Chidimma. Muhammad. Ado. Conditional cash transfer schemes in Nigeria: potential gains for maternal and child health service uptake in a national pilot programme. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 12 December 2014. 14. 408. 10.1186/s12884-014-0408-9. 25495258. 4273319. free.
• Abubakar. Ibrahim. Dalglish. Sarah L.. Angell. Blake. Sanuade. Olutobi. Abimbola. Seye. Adamu. Aishatu Lawal. Adetifa. Ifedayo M. O.. Colbourn. Tim. Ogunlesi. Afolabi Olaniyi. Onwujekwe. Obinna. Owoaje. Eme T.. Okeke. Iruka N.. Adeyemo. Adebowale. Aliyu. Gambo. Aliyu. Muktar H. Aliyu. Sani Hussaini. Ameh. Emmanuel A.. Archibong. Belinda. Ezeh. Alex. Gadanya. Muktar A.. Ihekweazu. Chikwe. Ihekweazu. Vivianne. Iliyasu. Zubairu. Kwaku Chiroma. Aminatu. Mabayoje. Diana A.. Nasir Sambo. Mohammed. Obaro. Stephen. Yinka-Ogunleye. Adesola. Okonofua. Friday. Oni. Tolu. Onyimadu. Olu. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Salako. Babatunde L.. Shuaib. Faisal. Tsiga-Ahmed. Fatimah. Zanna. Fatima H . The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation. The Lancet. 19 March 2022. 399. 10330. 1155–1200. 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02488-0. 35303470. 8943278.
• Wood. Stacy. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Schulman. Kevin. Novel strategies to support global promotion of COVID-19 vaccination. BMJ Global Health. 14 October 2021. 6. 10. e006066. 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006066. 34649869. 8521672.
• Swaminathan. Soumya. Sheikh. Kabir. Marten. Robert. Taylor. Martin. Jhalani. Manoj. Chukwujekwu. Ogochukwu. Pearson. Luwei. Allotey. Pascale. Gough. Jean. Scherpbier. Robert W.. Gupta. Anuradha. Wijnroks. Marijke. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Sorgho. Gaston. Levine. Orin. Goodyear-Smith. Felicity. Sundararaman. Thiagarajan. Montenegro. Hernan. Dalil. Suraya. Ghaffar. Abdul. Embedded research to advance primary health care. BMJ Global Health. 18 December 2020. 5. 12. e004684. 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004684. 33355263. 7751205.
• Yamey. Gavin. Schäferhoff. Marco. Hatchett. Richard. Pate. Muhammad. Zhao. Feng. McDade. Kaci Kennedy. Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. The Lancet. 2020. 395. 10234. 1405–1406. 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30763-7. 32243778. 7271264.
• Kruk. Margaret E.. Gage. Anna D. Arsenault. Catherine. Jordan. Keely. Leslie. Hannah H.. Roder-DeWan. Sanam. Adeyi. Olusoji. Barker. Pierre. Daelmans. Bernadette. Doubova. Svetlana V.. English. Mike. Elorrio. Ezequiel García. Guanais. Frederico. Gureje. Oye. Hirschhorn. Lisa R.. Jiang. Lixin. Kelley. Edward. Lemango. Ephrem Tekle. Liljestrand. Jerker. Malata. Address. Marchant. Tanya. Matsoso. Malebona Precious. Meara. John G. Mohanan. Manoj. Ndiaye. Youssoupha. Norheim. Ole F. Reddy. K Srinath. Rowe. Alexander K. Salomon. Joshua A. Thapa. Gagan. Twum-Danso. Nana A Y. Pate. Muhammad. High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution. The Lancet. Global Health. 2018. 6. 11. e1196–e1252. 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30386-3. 30196093. 7734391.
• Upfill-Brown. Alexander M.. Lyons. Hil M.. Pate. Muhammad A.. Shuaib. Faisal. Baig. Shahzad. Hu. Hao. Eckhoff. Philip A. Chabot-Couture. Guillaume. Predictive spatial risk model of poliovirus to aid prioritization and hasten eradication in Nigeria. BMC Medicine. 4 June 2014. 12. 92. 10.1186/1741-7015-12-92. 24894345. 4066838. free.
• Tulenko. Kate. Møgedal. Sigrun. Afzal. Muhammad Mahmood. Frymus. Diana. Oshin. Adetokunbo. Pate. Muhammad. Quain. Estelle. Pinel. Arletty. Wynd. Shona. Zodpey. Sanjay. Community health workers for universal health-care coverage: from fragmentation to synergy . Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 1 November 2013. 91. 11. 847–852. 10.2471/BLT.13.118745. 24347709. 3853952.
• Gupta. Neeru. Maliqi. Blerta. França. Adson. Nyonator. Frank. Pate. Muhammad A.. Sanders. David. Belhadj. Hedia. Daelmans. Bernadette. Human resources for maternal, newborn and child health: from measurement and planning to performance for improved health outcomes. Human Resources for Health. 24 June 2011. 9. 16. 10.1186/1478-4491-9-16. 21702913. 3157412. free.
• Abimbola. Seye. Okoli. Ugo. Olubajo. Olalekan. Abdullahi. Mohammed J.. Pate. Muhammad A.. The Midwives Service Scheme in Nigeria. PLOS Medicine. 1 May 2012. 9. 5. e1001211. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001211. 22563303. 3341343. free.
• Gupta. Neeru. Maliqi. Blerta. França. Adson. Nyonator. Frank. Pate. Muhammad A.. Sanders. David. Belhadj. Hedia. Daelmans. Bernadette. Human resources for maternal, newborn and child health: from measurement and planning to performance for improved health outcomes. Human Resources for Health. December 2011. 9. 1. 16. . 10.1186/1478-4491-9-16. 21702913. 3157412. free.
• Book: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262016735.003.0019. Group Report: Designing Elimination or Eradication Initiatives that Interface Effectively with Health Systems. Disease Eradication in the 21st Century. 2011. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Gyapong. John O.. Dowdle. Walter R.. Hopkins. Adrian. Hozumi. Dairiku. Malecela. Mwelecele. Tyson. Stewart. 273–286. 978-0-262-01673-5.
• Wassilak. Steven. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Wannemuehler. Kathleen. Jenks. Julie. Burns. Cara. Chenoweth. Paul. Abanida. Emmanuel Ade. Adu. Festus. Baba. Marycelin. Gasasira. Alex. Iber. Jane. Mkanda. Pascal. Williams. A. J.. Shaw. Jing. Pallansch. Mark. Kew. Olen. Outbreak of Type 2 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Nigeria: Emergence and Widespread Circulation in an Underimmunized Population. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1 April 2011. 203. 7. 898–909. 10.1093/infdis/jiq140. 41151031. 21402542. 3068031.
• Jenkins. Helen E.. Aylward. R. Bruce. Gasasira. Alex. Donnelly. Christl A.. Mwanza. Michael. Corander. Jukka. Garnier. Sandra. Chauvin. Claire. Abanida. Emmanuel. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Adu. Festus. Baba. Marycelin. Grassly. Nicholas C.. Implications of a Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Nigeria. New England Journal of Medicine. 24 June 2010. 362. 25. 2360–2369. 10.1056/nejmoa0910074. 20573924. free.

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.
• Book: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262016735.003.0019. Group Report: Designing Elimination or Eradication Initiatives that Interface Effectively with Health Systems. Disease Eradication in the 21st Century. 2011. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Gyapong. John O.. Dowdle. Walter R.. Hopkins. Adrian. Hozumi. Dairiku. Malecela. Mwelecele. Tyson. Stewart. 273–286. 978-0-262-01673-5.
• Book: 10.1007/978-3-642-27881-5_13. Africa's Growing Giant – Population Dynamics in Nigeria. Population Dynamics in Muslim Countries. 2012. Pate. Muhammad Ali. Schoppig. Joel. 211–224. 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.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Muhammad Ali Pate. The Brookings Institution. 29 August 2022.
2. Web site: Muhammad Ali Pate. Management Sciences for Health.
3. News: Nigeria: World Bank Appoints Prof Pate Global Director. 20 May 2019. Daily Trust. 9 June 2019.
4. News: Full List: 2022 National Honours Award Recipients. The Nation.
5. Web site: Dr. Pate Assumes Duty, Promises Efficient Service Delivery. 24 July 2011.
6. News: A Campaign Shows Signs of Progress Against Polio. Dugger. Celia W.. Celia W. Dugger. The New York Times. 12 April 2010. 4.
7. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/foundationnotes/Pages/muhammad-pate-last-hair-in-nigeria.aspx Getting the "Last Hair" in Nigeria – Muhammad Pate | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
8. Web site: Programs Johns Hopkins. 26 April 2022. publichealth.jhu.edu.
9. Web site: Ali Pate, Minister of State, Health, Resigns. Daily Times. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130928024218/http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/ali-pate-minister-state-health-resigns. 28 September 2013.
10. Web site: Muhammad Ali Pate . 23 April 2022 . africa.harvard.edu.
11. Web site: 19 August 2016 . Muhammad Pate, Former Minister of State for Health of Nigeria . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20220817190257/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/pate/ . 17 August 2022 . 27 April 2022 . Voices in Leadership.
12. Web site: Search Britannica. 26 April 2022. britannica.com.
13. Web site: Dr Muhammad Ali Pate – Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute. 23 April 2022.
14. Web site: Search Britannica . 26 April 2022 . britannica.com.
15. Web site: Muhammad Ali Pate . 23 April 2022 . Management Sciences for Health.
16. Web site: 2022-02-24 . The facts speak for themselves on Jonathan's administration by Reno Omokri . 27 April 2022 . Vanguard.
17. Web site: 29 June 2021 . Muhammad Ali Pate Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population Director, Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) . 28 April 2022 . blogs.worldbank.org.
18. Web site: Stephen . John . 19 August 2023 . Meet Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria Health Minister . 20 August 2023 . Health Telescope.
19. News: 24 July 2013 . Muhammed Pate, Minister of State resigns . 27 April 2022 . Vanguard.
20. News: Muhammad Ali Pate, un Nigérian pour diriger l'Alliance du vaccin. Muhammad Ali Pate, a Nigerian to lead the Vaccine Alliance. fr. Africanews. 14 February 2023. 2 October 2024.
21. Web site: 2 March 2017. Muhammad A. Pate. 21 May 2022. The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems.
22. Web site: Duke Fuqua Insights | Duke's Fuqua School of Business.
23. Web site: Ali Pate gets World Bank, Harvard University appointments. 23 April 2022. Financial Nigeria International Limited.
24. Web site: 2017-03-02 . Muhammad A. Pate. 23 April 2022. The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era.
25. Web site: Yahaya. Ibrahim Muye. 10 September 2020. Muhammad Ali Pate: Global public servant @ 52. 23 April 2022. Blueprint Newspapers Limited.
26. Web site: Margaret e. Kruk's Faculty Website. 5 January 2021. 2 October 2024.
27. Web site: High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: Time for a revolution. 5 September 2018. 2 October 2024.
28. Web site: Malaria eradication within a generation: Ambitious, achievable, and necessary. 9 September 2019. 2 October 2024.
29. Web site: Future health in sub-Saharan Africa. 13 September 2017. 2 October 2024.
30. Web site: GPEI-Independent Monitoring Board.
31. Web site: https://www.aiha.com/.
32. Web site: https://acesoglobal.org/.
33. Web site: https://www.thehealthcareleadership.academy/.
34. Web site: http://www.flint-atlantic.com/.
35. Web site: About the VoVRN. 2 October 2024.
36. Web site: Editorial Board. BMJ Global Health. 2 October 2024.
37. Web site: Dr Muhammad Ali Pate to become next CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi. 2 October 2024.
38. Web site: World Bank appoints Nigeria's ex-minister, Muhammad Pate, as global director for health. 16 May 2019. TheCable. 27 May 2020.