Nazira Karimo Vali Abdula is the minister of health of the Republic of Mozambique, a position she has held since January 2015. She was previously deputy minister of health in the previous government from 2010 to 2014. She was born on the island of Mozambique, province of Nampula. She is a medical doctor trained in pediatrics and general medicine, and has worked on malaria, cholera and HIV/AIDS.