Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa Health Budget Network

Aminu Magashi Garba is the founder and coordinator of the Africa Health Budget Network, a regional group that uses budget advocacy to influence adequate health spending and improve transparency and accountability. He is the Global Co-convener of the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health. He is a member of the Global Action Plan for SDG 3 Civil Society Advocacy Group, the immediate past civil society representative to the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investors Group (2017/18) and currently a member of the steering committee of the Global Civil Society Coordinating Group for the GFF. In 2018, he served on the World Health Organization Civil Society Advisory Group for its Health Financing Campaign.

In Nigeria, he is a founding member of the National Advocates for Health, a policy and advocacy think-tank engaging in high-level advocacy on health-care financing reforms. In his voluntary capacity he has been a weekly health columnist with the Nigerian newspaper “Daily Trust” for over 17 years and the publisher of an online newspaper “Health Reporters”, which reports on Africa’s health.

He holds an MBBS degree from University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and a Master of Science in Public Health and post-graduate diploma from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he was a Chevening scholar (2006/07). During his undergraduate studies he was the Vice President of Nigerian Medical Students Association in 1997/98.