Ashiru Abubakar currently serves as a medical officer with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital. He is responsible for providing clinical services to the hospital's amenity clients as well as care and support to HIV patients including the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. He also serves as a development worker with Health Education Initiative for Women (HEIFOW), a non-governmental organization where he mentors facility health committees and provides care and support to orphans and vulnerable children in rural communities. He received the 2013 Newborn Health Hero award from Evidence for Action for his work conducting voluntary blood donation campaigns. Ashiru graduated from Bayero University Kano with a medical degree in 2009. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, he intends to use the skills and linkages acquired to ensure equitable access to quality health care, especially to the underprivileged and vulnerable in his community, country, and throughout Africa and the world. Ashiru was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute.  He interned at US Pharmacopeia in August-September 2014.