His appointment as the Minister of Health in July 2011[6] was followed his role as the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja.[7][8] He resigned from this position, effective 24 July 2013, to take up a professorship at Duke University Global Health Institute, United States.[9][10][11][12] He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy.[13][14] He formerly served as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population.[15] Pate is also the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria.[16][17][18][19][20]
In February 2023, Muhammad Ali Pate was appointed CEO of GAVI - the Vaccine Alliance, which works to provide vaccines in low-income countries.[21]
Early life and education
Muhammad Ali Pate was born on 6 September 1968, in present-day Misau, in the Local Government Area of Bauchi State in Nigeria. He was raised in the northern part of the country.[7] He is the son of a Fulani herdsman.
Prior to his appointment into the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) 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.[24] 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.[25] Worthy of note is his initiation of landmark public-private partnership to replace a National Referral Hospital in Lesotho.[26]
Other board, commission, and committee memberships
Co-chair (along with Margaret Kruk[27]), The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. Report was launched on 6 September 2018[28]
Member, Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication[29] -ongoing
Member, Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa[30] (report 09/2017)
Member, Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative[31]
Board member, American International Health Alliance,[32] Washington D.C., 2015–2022
Board member, Aceso Global,[33] Washington DC 2015–2022
Member, Steering Committee on the Value of Vaccination Research Network, Harvard University[36]
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
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. ISBN978-0-262-01673-5.
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. ISBN978-0-262-01673-5.
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. ISBN978-3-642-27880-8.
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.
^"Muhammad A. Pate". The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
^"Muhammad A. Pate". The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
