Ibrahim Abubakar is Vice Provost (Health) and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at UCL. He is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, University College London NHS Trust Board, UCL Partners Board and the Board of Resolve to Save Lives.
He is the chair of Lancet Migration: global collaboration to advance migration health and Lancet Nigeria Commission. He was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator in 2017 and elected Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020, member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2024 and the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
He was Pro-Provost (Health) and Dean of the Faculty of Population Health until 2025, and served as director of the UCL Institute for Global Health between April 2016 until July 2021. 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, Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group on Population Health until 2022 and the NIHR Global Health Professorship Committee until 2025. 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.
- Director, Fotude Ltd
- Director, UCL Partners
- Emeritus Senior Investigator - National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Member - Global Preparedness Monitoring Board till 2026
