Mu’azu Muhammad is a results driven global health and international development professional with nearly 12 years of experience working to improve access to lifesaving health care services and commodities in Nigeria. He has worked on multiple USAID-funded projects in health system strengthening, maternal newborn and child health, nutrition, family planning, immunization and malaria.
Mu’azu is a senior program officer in R4D’s Market Shaping practice where he provides strategic and programmatic leadership in managing market shaping projects in Nigeria. He leads in transforming markets for maternal, newborn and child health medicines and devices, by identifying underlying market challenges and opportunities to create advocacy and market-shaping roadmaps to introduce and scale-up lifesaving commodities for the health and wellbeing of women and children. Mu’azu further manages both new and existing key internal and external partnerships at the national and sub-national levels.
Before joining R4D, Mu’azu worked with and managed Global Funds- and USAID-funded projects strengthening primary health care systems and establishing durable community partnerships for the reduction of maternal newborn and child mortality in Nigeria by addressing barriers to access and use of health care services through social and behavior change. He previously contributed to the introduction and the scale-up of chlorhexidine (a low dose antiseptic) to prevent newborn death by preventing umbilical cord infection, and misoprostol for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in Nigeria.
He currently served on the advisory board of Lafiya Nigeria, and had previously served in the same capacity at Family Empowerment Media (FEM).
Mu’azu holds an MPA in development practice from Columbia University, a master’s degree in international studies and a bachelor’s degree in history from Usmanu Dan Fodio University Sokoto. He speaks English and Hausa fluently and is currently learning Arabic and French.
