Muhammad Ali Pate

Muhammad Ali Pate is a Nigerian physician and current Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Nigeria. He's also a professor of the practice of public health leadership in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University. He formerly served as the global director for health, nutrition and population and director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents  at the World Bank Group. Pate is also the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria. Pate, along with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Amina J. Mohammed were conferred with Nigeria's national honors. Pate was conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).