Haliru Alhassan
Haliru Alhassan (1954 – 10 May 2020) was a Nigerian doctor and politician. He served as Nigeria’s Minister of Health from March to May 2015 under President Goodluck Jonathan, and as Minister of State for Health from February 2014 to March 2015.
Born in Sokoto State, he trained as a doctor at the Medical University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria (1982–1988) and earned a master’s in tropical pediatrics at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1994–1995). A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, he played a key role in Nigeria’s health programs, including as co-lead of the Nigeria Ebola Response Team during the 2014 outbreak and as chair of the Presidential Task Force on Polio Eradication. After a cabinet reshuffle in March 2015, he served as Supervising Minister and later Coordinating Minister of Health.
In Sokoto State, he was the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Health Services Management Board from September 2019 until his death in 2020. He was married and had four children. He died on 10 May 2020 at the age of 66 after a brief illness.
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