Ibrahim Abubakar is Vice-Provost (Health) for UCL and Dean, UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences. He is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at UCL. He was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator in 2017 and elected Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020. He is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, North Central London Integrated Care Board, UCL Partners Board and the Strategic Advisory Board of Resolve to Save Lives. He is the chair of Lancet Migration: global collaboration to advance migration health, Lancet Nigeria Commission and the NIHR Global Health Professorship Committee.
He was director of the UCL Institute for Global Health until July 2021. He led the UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, UCL-TB and was a senior investigator at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit. He was head of TB at Public Health England. Prior to his appointment at UCL, he was Professor in Health Protection at the Norwich Medical School. He served as chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis until 2019 and of the Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group on Population Health until 2022.
He qualified in medicine in 1992 and initially trained in general medicine before specialising in public health medicine. His academic public health training was undertaken at LSHTM, University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia.
