Muhammad Ali Pate

Muhammad Ali Pate (born in September 1968 in Misau, now in Bauchi State) is a Nigerian physician and politician. He is certified by the American Board in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He was appointed as the 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. Quotes I’ve visited more than 100 countries in the world. Every country that you see that has become as great or strong as it may be is built by its people. Development comes from inside, not from outside. And so, while we have experiences, learning, and networks, fundamentally, it is the leadership of a country—in our case, the president—who sets the pace for transforming the path that we take as a country towards one that is prosperous and inclusive—that works for all of us as Nigerians, and I’m so honoured to join him. What is my assessment? When we came in, we took time to listen and speak to the civil servants in the ministry and agencies. We had people’s voices surveyed to understand how Nigerians view the health sector and their experiences. The first is to improve the governance of the sector in the federal system to manifest what we call the National Health System. This refers to how the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare interfaces with the composite state ministries of health in the respective states that we have in the country and the Federal Capital Territory and works with the local governments in tandem with our development partners, who contribute to the health efforts in this country with their finance and technical support The second pillar is to have a laser focus on improving population health outcomes, meaning we use public financing to deliver basic services to all Nigerians through the primary health care system, using the basic health care provision fund as a starting point to expand the supply side and the vulnerable group fund through the NHIA to begin to move towards improving the affordability of health care for the poorest Nigerians. External links Category:Politicians from Nigeria Category:Physicians from Nigeria Category:1968 births Category:Living people