Ibrahim Abubakar

FMedSci FRCP FFPH
NationalityBritish
Alma materLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
University of Cambridge
University of East Anglia
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology and global health
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of East Anglia
ThesisAn epidemiological investigation of the role of mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in the aetiology of Chrohn's disease (2007)
Websitehttps://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=IABUB15

Ibrahim Ibrahim Abubakar FFPH FRCPE FRCP FMedSci is a British-Nigerian epidemiologist who is Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences.[1][2][3]

Education

He qualified in medicine in 1992 from Ahmadu Bello University and initially trained in general medicine before specialising in public health medicine.[4] He trained in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine graduating with an MSc in 1999, DPH from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and a PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2007.[5] He was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020 in recognition of his research in infectious disease epidemiology and migration and health.[6]

Work

He was director of the UCL Institute for Global Health until August 2021.[7] He previously served as head of TB at Public Health England.[8] Prior to his appointment at UCL, he was Professor in Health Protection at Norwich Medical School. In 2011, he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) on tuberculosis[9] and in 2016 he was appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator.[10]

He is the chair of the NIHR Global Professorship Selection Committee [11] and of the Wellcome Trust Population Health Expert Review Group[12] and the Lancet Migration Initiative.[13] He was an Advisory Board member of the Public Health Board of Open Society Foundation[14] and of the MRC Applied Global Health Board.[15] He is also on the Editorial Board of the European Respiratory Journal and BMC Medicine.[16][17]

He served as the chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG TB) from 2016 to 2019[18] and co-chaired the NICE TB guidelines development group,[19] and was a board member, Africa Research Excellence Fund.[20]

Prof Abubakar was awarded the 2023 Roux Prize.[21]

Research and publications

Abubakar led the Lancet Nigeria Commission[22] which was launched in March 2022 in Abuja with media coverage[23] and has influenced national health policy in Nigeria including the recent passage of the National Health Insurance Authority Act 2022.[24] He led the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health[25] which dispelled myths regarding the perceived threat from migration to public health and urged action on improved health provision for migrants. The results were especially topical in the context of mass migration in the Mediterranean and in central and North America. The findings of the commission achieved widespread media coverage, such as reports in The Guardian, NBC News, and at the World Economic Forum.[26][27][28]

He co-edited the Oxford Specialist Handbook in Infectious Disease Epidemiology published in 2016.[29] His work on mass gathering medicine in 2012 as part of the Lancet infectious Diseases Mass Gathering Medicine Series[30] generated media interest due to the potential impact of pandemics in crowded settings (London 2012: Mass gathering risks disease spreading).[31]

He is widely published in tuberculosis epidemiology, diagnosis and control with media coverage including research on tuberculosis screening,[32] work showing high risk of TB in pregnancy and the postpartum period, tuberculosis and air travel,[33] and on the effects of BCG in TB prevention.[34] He leads the E-DETECT TB project in Europe for the early detection of tuberculosis,[35] which in Romania has led to the expansion of mobile x-ray screening through €15 million investment in similar units to travel around the country.[36]

He has an h-index of 90 according to Google Scholar.[37]

Other activities

  • Africa Europe Foundation (AEF), Member of the Strategy Group on Health (since 2020)[38]

References

  1. ↑ UCL (22 June 2018). "Professor Ibrahim Abubakar". UCL-TB. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Ibrahim-Abubakar-appointed-as-dean". ucl.ac.uk. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  4. ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  6. ↑ "50 leading biomedical and health scientists elected to the prestigious Academy Fellowship | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  7. ↑ "Ibrahim-Abubakar-appointed-as-dean". ucl.ac.uk. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Ibrahim Abubakar - Public health matters". publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  9. ↑ "NIHR Funding and Awards Search Website". www.dev.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  10. ↑ "NIHR Annual Report" (PDF). National Institute for Health Research. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  11. ↑ "NIHR Research Professorships". nihr.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  12. ↑ "Population and Public Health Expert Review Group - Grant Funding | Wellcome". wellcome.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  13. ↑ "OUR TEAM". migrationandhealth. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  14. ↑ "Public Health Program, Global Health Advisory Committee". www.opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  15. ↑ "Medical Research Council Applied Global Health Board". mrc.ukri.org. 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  16. ↑ "Editorial Board | European Respiratory Society". erj.ersjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  17. ↑ "BMC Medicine". BMC Medicine. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  18. ↑ "Strategic and technical advisory group for tuberculosis" (PDF). World Health Organisation. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  19. ↑ Hoppe, Lucy Elizabeth; Kettle, Rachel; Eisenhut, Michael; Abubakar, Ibrahim (2016-01-13). "Tuberculosis—diagnosis, management, prevention, and control: summary of updated NICE guidance". BMJ. 352: h6747. doi:10.1136/bmj.h6747. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 26762607. S2CID 206908943.
  20. ↑ "Our Board's biographies • Africa Research Excellence fund". Africa Research Excellence fund. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  21. ↑ "Professor Ibrahim Abubakar awarded 2023 Roux Prize". The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  22. ↑ "Lancet Nigeria Commission". lancet.com. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  23. ↑ "Nigeria Health System Requires Radical Overhaul". Financial Times. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  24. ↑ "83 million poor nigerians to benefit from new health insurance". vanguardngr.com. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  25. ↑ "The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move". www.thelancet.com. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  26. ↑ "Myths about migrants spreading disease 'inform hostile policies'". the Guardian. 2018-12-05. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  27. ↑ "Migrants don't bring disease. In fact, they help fight it, report says". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  28. ↑ "Migrants are 'healthier and live longer' than residents in their host countries". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  29. ↑ Abubakar, Ibrahim; Stagg, Helen R.; Cohen, Ted; Rodrigues, Laura C., eds. (2016-04-07). Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871983-0.
  30. ↑ "Mass Gatherings Health". www.thelancet.com. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  31. ↑ "London 2012 'disease spread risk'". BBC News. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  32. ↑ "Despite progress, tuberculosis persists in West European cities". Reuters. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  33. ↑ "Rules for flying with tuberculosis disputed". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  34. ↑ "BCG vaccine prevents TB infection in children". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  35. ↑ Abubakar, Ibrahim; Matteelli, Alberto; Vries, Gerard de; Zenner, Dominik; Cirillo, Daniela M.; Lönnroth, Knut; Popescu, Gilda; Barcellini, Lucia; Story, Alistair; Migliori, Giovanni Battista (2018-05-01). "Towards tackling tuberculosis in vulnerable groups in the European Union: the E-DETECT TB consortium". European Respiratory Journal. 51 (5). doi:10.1183/13993003.02604-2017. ISSN 0903-1936. PMID 29748241.
  36. ↑ ucltb (2019-10-29). "E-DETECT presented at Romanian Parliament". E-DETECT TB. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  37. ↑ "Ibrahim Abubakar". Google Scholar. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  38. ↑ Strategy Group on Health Africa Europe Foundation (AEF).
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