Ibrahim Abubakar#
| Membership Number: | 7211 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/31417 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0370-1430 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 to date Pro-Provost (Health), UCL
- 2021 to date Dean, Population Health Sciences and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, UCL
- 2016 - 2021 Director, UCL Institute for Global Health and Vice Dean, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL
- 2012 - 2016 Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Professor
- 2012 - 2016 Head of TB, Public Health England
- 2011 - 2012 Clinical Professor in Medicine (Epidemiology), Norwich Medical School, UEA, Norwich
- 2005 - 2012 Consultant/Head of TB, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London
- 2005 - 2011 Clinical Senior Lecturer, Norwich Medical School, UEA, Norwich
- 2003 - 2005 Specialist Registrar/Clinical Lecturer, Eastern Deanery/UEA/IPH, Cambridge
- 2002 - 2003 Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge
- 2000 - 2002 Specialist Registrar, Cambridgeshire Health Authority
- 1994 - 1999 Registrar/Senior Registrar (Internal Medicine), ABU Teaching Hospital, Kaduna
- 1993 - 1994 Medical Officer (NYSC), State House Annex Clinic, Abuja
- 1992 - 1993 House Officer, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Teaching Hospital, Kaduna
Fields of Scholarship
- Tuberculosis
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Migration and health
- Health systems
- Emerging infections
- Vulnerable groups
Honours and Awards
- 2024 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2020 Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2023 Roux Prize
- 2023 Officer of the Order of the Niger
- 2021 Gold Clinical Excellence Award, UK Department of Health
- 2016 NIHR Senior Investigator
- 2013 Sir John Crofton Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine
- 2012 Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- 1999 Distinction, London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine MSc




