Dr. Ado Jimada Gana Muhammad (OON) is the Global Programme Director at the D-8 Health and Social Protection Programme and was once the Executive Director/CEO of Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), the government organ responsible for developing national primary health care (PHC) policy and supporting states and Local Government Areas (LGAs) to implement them. 

In recognition of his outstanding achievements at the NPHCDA, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan honoured Dr. Muhammad with the National Award of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) on September 29, 2014. The award of OON, which is one of the country’s highest national honours, was conferred on him by the president in appreciation of his outstanding efforts to drive the process of providing primary healthcare to Nigeria’s poor and most vulnerable citizens.

Dr. Muhammad previously worked as Senior Technical Adviser (Health Sector), in the Office of the Senior Assistant to the Nigerian President on Millennium Development Goals. Before that role, he was National Health Adviser for the Bamako Initiative Programme which was part of the now defunct Petroleum Trust Fund. He had also worked with the National Programme on Immunization (NPI), prior to its merger with the NPHCDA