Rabiu Ahmed Rufai
Rabiu Ahmed Rufai is the Vice presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and running mate to Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of AAC. He was born on July 17, 1976 in Jigawa State.
Rufai is a world-class expert in public health intervention. His areas of expertise include Maternal and Child Health Services, Communicable Disease Prevention & Control, Health Systems Development for Primary Health Care, Health Management, Policy and Planning, Health Economics and Policy Research, Health System Development and Strengthening, Demography, Monitoring & Evaluation of Health Programs, Medical Statistics, and Epidemiology.
Rabiu’s impressive qualifications include a medical degree (MBBS) from Bayero University, Kano, and Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Leeds University UK.
He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP) and also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH). He is a member and Associate Fellow of the West African Postgraduate Medical College, a Member and Associate Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and a Member of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
Rufai was the pioneer Dean of the School of Public Health at Federal University Dutse from 2014 to 2015
He served as Honorary Consultant Public Health Physician at the Federal Medical Centre Birnin Kudu.
From 2011 to 2013, he was a lecturer and Head of Health Policy and Health System Strengthening Unit as well as the Health Management, Policy, and Planning Unit at Bayero University/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano, while also serving as Honorary Consultant Public Health Physician.
Rufai served as Registrar and Senior Registrar (I, II) at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital from 2007 to 2011.
He served Nigeria from 2006 to 2007. During his National Youth Service at the State Specialist Hospital, Akure, Ondo State, as an attending Physician at General Out-patient, Paediatrics & Casualty Units.
He was a House Officer at both the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, and the Specialist Hospital Bauchi, Bauchi State from June 2005 to December 2005.
Rufai has received multiple awards internationally for his outstanding work in the field of public health. For over a decade, he has worked tirelessly on primary health care in Nigeria, bringing contemporary practices to the field of maternal and child health, tuberculosis, HIV, environmental health and many of the tropical diseases ailing our people.
He is well-traveled and well-read doctor with indigenous passion, who has given his entire life and career to serving Nigeria’s least privileged at the grassroots level and demonstrated a readiness to lay his life on the line to ensure that national well-being, backed by good governance is established in Nigeria.
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