Paulin Basinga

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

Basinga is global director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation responsible for program advocacy and communication (PAC) based in Seattle, Washington since September 2021. 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. He is on the boards of University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda since November 2022, and Global Citizen, New York City since May 2023.

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. Since September 2017, he served as country director of Nigeria at the same foundation, based in Abuja until September 2020. 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. Provided by Wikipedia