Professro Muktar Gadanya, MFR was awarded the Presidential National Honour of Member of the Order of Federal Republic (MFR) for service to Public Health at the age of 29 years. He currently serves as a Core Group member of the Nigeria National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) (including its sub-committee on emerging diseases/COVID-19) convened by the Honourable Minister of Health. He was Principal Investigator for four National researches. He was the lead consultant for the development of Nigeria’s National Family Planning Blueprint and for Nigeria’s National Immunization Coverage and Equity Assessment.
He is  a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (FMCPH) (where he won the Prof. Adetokunbo Lucas Prize for the Overall Best Graduate and the Dr JD Soloye Prize for the candidate with the best Public Health dissertation).  He has the Master of Science (MSc) degree of the University of London/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research, during which he won the 2nd Prize for  Higher Education Academy Essay Competition.
He graduated with the MBBS of Bayero University, Kano, as the Overall Best Graduating Student, Best Student in Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, and Best Student in Community Medicine.
In March 2017, he won the 2nd Prize in the International Carnegie Council of New York Essay Competition on Globalization. He was awarded the Presidential National Honour of Member of the Order of Federal Republic (MFR) at the age of 29 years.