Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu is a consultant pediatrician and an advocate for women's health, with a particular focus on cancer. She obtained a medical degree from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, and then proceeded to specialize in pediatrics and neonatology in the United Kingdom. She returned to work as a clinician in Nigeria and was confronted with challenges that clinicians and patients faced in accessing quality medical diagnostic services in northern Nigeria. In response, she founded Medicaid Radio-Diagnostics & Clinics in 2009, the first comprehensive medical diagnostics center in Abuja.