Open invitation to attend GH 704 for talk by Dr. Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq
Dr. Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq will be discussing private sector health care in Nigeria during the first hour of GH 704:
Monday, December 7
10:00AM
CT-462A
All GH students are welcome to join.
Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Private Sector Health Alliance, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq is the Chief Executive Officer and founding board member of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria.
Until his appointment as the MD/CEO of the Alliance, Muntaqa was the Senior Technical Advisor to the former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate. In this position, he was responsible for leading a number of healthcare reform programs, including unlocking the market potential of the private sector in healthcare across the value chain, improving quality of care in public and private facilities through better clinical governance, National Health Insurance Scheme reforms and scaling up access to basic primary healthcare services, amongst others. Specifically, he co-authored the 2012 drug distribution guidelines for the FMOH and led the ministry’s efforts to streamline supply chain, logistics and drug distribution in Nigeria.
He is a graduate from the University of Cambridge, England, from which he received an M.Phil in Bioscience Enterprise. He completed 6-year MBBS at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, and holds an intercalated BSc in Management (with Finance & Health Economics) from the Tanaka Business School, London.
After internships at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company, he commenced his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he focused on the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical sector – and advised healthcare clients (government agencies, large-cap pharmaceuticals, medical technology, diagnostics, generic drug makers, hospital services and biotech clients) on a wide range of transactions including strategic advisory & operational planning mandates, capital raisings, leveraged buyouts, minority stake sales and mergers.
He is a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charter holder and founder of AfyaZima Africa Limited (Elpida Cambridge Health), a healthcare consulting and medical device company which won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurship Angel Investor prize.
