Moumini Niaoné

NextGen Scholar

Medical doctor and founding Executive Director of Pull for Progress

Dr. Moumini Niaoné is a medical doctor specializing in social, community, and behavioral health, with degrees from the University of Ouagadougou and Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Public Health. Certified as a health education specialist by NHES, he has focused his career on improving healthcare accessibility for vulnerable communities in Burkina Faso.

As the founding Executive Director of Pull for Progress, Dr. Niaoné manages healthcare for thousands of internally displaced persons and homeless children. He has developed health education radio programs and launched Burkina Faso’s first Community Health Club program. He has also conducted numerous community health needs assessments in rural areas.

Currently, Dr. Niaoné is furthering his education with an MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Program Planning at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD at Johns Hopkins in Health Behavior and Society. He lectures on health promotion and behavioral theories at the University of Ouagadougou’s Department of Public Health.

Dr. Niaoné has received several prestigious awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Knight of Merit award from Burkina Faso, a Rodman Rockefeller Fellowship, and a CDC Africa Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship.