Sani, Ruqayya Nasir, MBBS, MScPH, MWACP

Consultant Cardiologist,

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital,

Kano, Nigeria

Dr. Ruqayya Nasir Sani has a medical degree from Bayero University Kano, receiving the award for the Best Graduating Medical Student. She has Master of Public Health (Global Noncommunicable Diseases) with merits from the University of Edinburgh where she got a distinction in her dissertation. She is a Cardiologist at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH). 

Dr. Sani recently passed the Fellowship exams of the West African College of Physicians to qualify as a Consultant and Fellow of the College. During her internal medicine residency, she was awarded the A.O Senbanjo Prize for Best Part 1 Female Clinical Candidate in Internal Medicine by the National Postgraduate Medical College of Medicine (NPMCN).Dr Sani is one of 4 African early career researchers to receive the inaugural Bongani Mayosi Collaborative Seed Grant for Cardiovascular Research Excellence in Africa which is partly funding her research into sex differences in heart failure (including biomarkers and clinical outcomes) in Kano. She is also the site coordinator for AKTH and a co-investigator for the multicentre longitudinal MOHOPA study (Pattern and Determinants of Morbidities, Mortality and Healthcare Financing of Hospitalised Medical Patients). 

In 2021, Dr. Sani was selected for the Emerging Authors Program for Global Cardiovascular Disease Research jointly organised by the CDC, the World Hypertension League, and The Lancet. Through this programme she published a systematic review and meta-analysis on the rural-urban difference in the prevalence of HTN in West Africa. Dr. Sani is a Commonwealth Scholarship alumna, Mandela Washington Fellow and Global Shaper. In recognition of her community and development work, the US Mission in Nigeria featured Ruqayya in their “When Women Lead” series in celebration of International Women’s Day.