Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu

Her Excellency, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu is a Paediatricians, a powerful voice in the fight against cancer globally, and has a longstanding interest in advocating for the rights of women and children. She is the Founder of Medicaid Cancer Foundation (MCF) and the MD/CEO of Medicaid radio-diagnostics Limited, which was established in 2009 in response to the paucity of diagnostic services in Nigeria. It is the first of its kind to offer high-tech equipment. MCF was founded to create awareness, build human capacity, fund screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cancers in Nigeria. 

Before Medicaid, she set up and headed the Paediatric Unit of Garki Hospital in 2002.  She is also the Chairperson of First Ladies Against Cancer and a third-term board member of UICC and serves on several committees and technical working groups, including the steering committee for the National Cancer Control plan, Cancer Health Fund and WHO led Global Breast Cancer Initiative.