Ibrahim Abubakar - Curriculum Vitae#

• Professor Ibrahim Abubakar is Pro-Provost (Health) and the Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL. He is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and a UK National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator.
  
  • Strategic leadership with a focus on the 4 health faculties (Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Life Sciences and Brain Sciences) and across the whole university. UCL health faculties have a budget of over £1 billion annually
    
  • Development of a strategy for health across UCL
    
  • Coordination of the relationship with partner hospitals and community health care organisations including UCLH, GOSH, Royal Free, Moorefields Eye Hospital and UCLPartners
    
  • University oversight of the UCLH, GOSH and Moorfields NIHR Biomedical Research Centres
• 2021 Dean, UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, UCL
  
  • Strategic leadership and managemennt of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of 10 Institutes/Schools: Institute for Global Health, Institute of Womens Health, Institute of Health Informatics, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Global Business School for Health, Health of the Public, Zayed Centre
    
  • Developed and delivered strategy with an annual budget of £250 million
    
  • Oversight and successful growth of medical and population health sciences education

He is a Fellow of Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh and the UK Faculty of Public Health. Over the last 3 decades his career has spanned leadership roles in clinical, academic and public service work. Notable global roles includes membership of the WHO/World Bank convened Global Preparedness Monitoring Board to prepare for the next health threat, chair of the World Health Organization Global Clinical Trial Forum & WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis, and Chair of Lancet Migration. He has provided technical support to countries in Africa, Europe and North America. In the UK, he chairs the NIHR Global Professorships Panel, was Scientific Adviser to the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee – Science of COVID-19 Review and Scientific Adviser to the Medical Director of Public Health England. He was head of TB at Public Health England where he led the UK government’s successful strategy to control TB. In Nigeria, he chaired the Health Protection sub-committee of the Presidential Health Reform Committee, and was Scientific and Technical Adviser to the Nigerian Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, a member of the National Health Research Committee, and Chair of the Lancet Nigeria Commission. The role his leadership played in strategy and health insurance legislation to support Universal Health Access in Nigeria was recognised through National and International awards, notably the Roux Prize.

Professor Abubakar qualified in medicine in 1992, initially training in general medicine. He undertook postgraduate training at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine graduating in 1999 with distinction and at the University of Cambridge in 2000. He has an established multi-million pound research programme in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, migration and Health, Health Systems, and global health. He has led or co-led successful project, fellowship and infrastructure applications exceeding £100 million including: Chief Investigator END-VOC Hop-On Portugal Cohort € 499,022.50; 2024 - 2025; Chief Investigator END-VOC- Global Investigation and Mitigation Of SARS-COV-2 Variants Of Concern Using Cohort Studies € 9,997,114; 2022 - 2025; Chief Investigator Research to Improve the Detection and treatment of latent TB infection, RID TB, NIHR £2.5 million; 2018 - 2025

Fellowships awarded to Mentored/Supervised/Sponsored Principal Applicants: Supervised or mentored 26 post doctoral fellows from early career to full professorships. Supervised 13 doctoral students to completion and have 3 current PhD students

Publications (Journal Articles) H-Index 98 (Google Scholar): 400 Peer Reviewed Publications in international journals on a broad range of chronic and infectious diseases, public health and health systems. Written or edited 3 books and contributed to 21 other published reports for national and multilateral agencies and book chapters.