Paulin Basinga

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Paulin Basinga
Born
Paulin Basinga

(1975-03-15) 15 March 1975 (age 49)
DRC
NationalityRwanda, US
Alma materNational University of Rwanda
Tulane University
Occupation(s)Leader, researcher
EmployerBill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2012–present)
Known forInternational Health
Notable workBill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2012–)
TitleGlobal Director
Board member ofUGHE(2022–present)
Global Citizen (2023–present)

Paulin Basinga (born 15 March 1975), is a Rwandan health researcher and leader.[1]

Basinga is global director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation responsible for program advocacy and communication (PAC) based in Seattle, Washington since September 2021.[2] He has served at the University of Rwanda in department of Medicine & Health Sciences cumulatively as a lecturer, senior lecturer and visiting professor since 2002. In 2015 and 2016, Basinga was technical advisor to the Rwanda Ministry of Health led by Agnes Binagwaho in operationalizing program integration within Rwanda Biomedical center (RBC), a Rwanda central health implementation agency established in 2011.[1] He is on the boards of University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda since November 2022, and Global Citizen, New York City since May 2023.[3][4]

Since January 2012, Basinga has worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2012 to 2014, he was a senior officer in charge of HIV/AIDS efficiency and effectiveness, and from 2014 to 2016 he took on the role of Deputy Director for country Primary Health Care in the Integrated Delivery team at the foundation supporting the work in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Tanzania.[5][6] Since September 2017, he served as country director of Nigeria at the same foundation, based in Abuja until September 2020.[7][8] Later on, he took on the role of Director Health for Africa for the foundation, based in Washington, the role he served until his appointment in September 2021.[9][10]

Early life and education

Basinga was born on 15 March 1975 to Habiyambare Idephonse and Thacienne Kabanyana, he grew up and completed his elementary and secondary education in DR Congo. Between 1995 and 2002, Basinga attended former National University of Rwanda renamed to University of Rwanda, in Rwanda, he graduated with General Medicine specialty. In 2003, he directly enrolled in Tulane University in United States to pursue a postgraduate degree, and he earned a Master of Science in International Health and Development there in 2006. Basinga continued his enrollment at Tulane in 2006 to pursue a PhD in International Health and Development, where he earned the degree in 2009.[1][11]

Career

Basinga joined the National University of Rwanda in 2002 as a lecturer in the department of Medicine & Health Sciences, having graduated there with a degree in General Medicine. Subsequently, he was promoted to senior lecturer, since 2012 he is a visiting professor at the university.[1] In addition, he served as the institution's deputy director overseeing research from 2009 to 2011.[12] In addition, he began working as a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 2012; from 2005 to 2010, he held this position at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium.[6]

In January 2012, Basinga started working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He started off as the program officer in charge of HIV/AIDS efficiency and effectiveness, based in Seattle, Washington.[13][14][15] Basinga held this role until November 2013. At the same foundation, he served as senior program officer in charge of integrated delivery from December 2013 until May 2016. In June of the same year, he was promoted to become deputy director of the Integrated Delivery for one year long, based in Seattle.[16]

In September 2017, Basinga moved from Seattle, Washington to Abuja when he was appointed as country director of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Nigeria. While he was in the office, The Foundation pledged to help Nigeria pay the Japan government a $76 million debt.[17] In 2018 and 2019 the foundation recorded each year nearly $200 million grants to Nigeria used in supporting and development of health, nutrition, agriculture, gender, and financial inclusion, in health it is known in supporting the eradication of Polio in Nigeria.[18][19] Basinga was in Nigeria during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting both the government and private sector efforts to respond to Covid-19. He served as a technical adviser to CACOVID, the Nigerian private sector coalition against Covid-19, and he worked closely with the Aliko Dangote Foundation. Basinga remained in Nigeria until August 2020, after which he returned to Seattle, Washington. Following his return, he was promoted to the position of Director of Health for Africa at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[9][20][21] Basinga served this position for one year prior to his appointment as global director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation responsible for program advocacy and communication (PAC) in September 2021.[22]

Publications

Recognitions

References

  1. ^ a b c d admin (16 November 2018). "Conversations with Public Health Leaders: Paulin Basinga MD, PhD". Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Paulin Basinga". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Paulin Basinga". UGHE. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Board of Directors". Global Citizen. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  5. ^ May 2017, Catherine Cheney // 31 (31 May 2017). "Training the next generation of global health leaders in Africa". Devex. Retrieved 29 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b "Paulin Basinga | University of Washington – Department of Global Health". globalhealth.washington.edu. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  7. ^ "INTERVIEW: Why Nigeria should invest more to save millions of children from malnutrition — Country Director, Gates Foundation". www.premiumtimesng.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ^ Nigeria, Guardian (22 February 2018). "Goals of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  9. ^ a b "bugandauk.com – The Buganda prime minister visited the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". www.bugandauk.com. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  10. ^ April 2021, Catherine Cheney // 17 (17 April 2021). "How funders can best work with governments to scale innovation". Devex. Retrieved 29 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Basinga, Paulin (2009). Impact of Performance-based Financing on the Quantity and Quality of Maternal Health Services in Rwanda (Thesis). ProQuest 305005153.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
  12. ^ "In Rwanda, Health Performance Pays". World Bank. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  13. ^ "Les pays en développement et la réponse des initiatives-partenariats globaux de la santé : analyse critique | Collège de France". www.college-de-france.fr (in French). 4 February 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  14. ^ Mitsunaga, Tisha; Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany; Ngizwenayo, Elias; Farmer, Didi Bertrand; Karamaga, Adolphe; Drobac, Peter; Basinga, Paulin; Hirschhorn, Lisa; Ngabo, Fidele; Mugeni, Cathy (May 2013). "Utilizing community health worker data for program management and evaluation: Systems for data quality assessments and baseline results from Rwanda". Social Science & Medicine. 85: 87–92. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.033. PMID 23540371.
  15. ^ Basinga, Paulin; Moore, Ann M.; Singh, Susheela; Remez, Lisa; Birungi, Francine; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia (1 May 2013). "Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda". Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda.
  16. ^ "Paulin Basinga". World Bank Live. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  17. ^ "INTERVIEW: Why we agreed to help Nigeria pay $76 million debt to Japan – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". www.premiumtimesng.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  18. ^ "Why Bill Gates was blunt in Nigeria speech – Country Director, Gates Foundation". www.premiumtimesng.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  19. ^ "INTERVIEW: How Gates Foundation helped eradicate polio in Nigeria – Officials". www.premiumtimesng.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  20. ^ the nation (21 September 2020). "Covid is opportunity to fix Nigeria's health sector'". Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  21. ^ MacNeil, Matt (23 February 2021). "Bay Area Global Health Alliance: Paulin Basinger of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Conversation with Stefano Bertozzi". UC Berkeley Public Health. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  22. ^ "Speak with our topical experts". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  23. ^ https://www.oecd.org/derec/norway/WORLDBANKDeliveringtheMDGtoreducematernalandchildmortality.pdf
  24. ^ Kagame, Jeannette (15 January 2010), Celebrating Young Rwandan Achievers-2009, retrieved 29 December 2023
  25. ^ "The Bixby International Leadership Fellowship". Guttmacher Institute. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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