Muhammad Ali Pate is a Nigerian physician and the current minister of health and social welfare of Nigeria. Until recently he was 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 was conferred with the high honor in Nigeria of Commander of the Order of the Niger, or CON.