Prof Ibrahim Abubakar

Vice Provost (Health) and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London

Prof Ibrahim Abubakar is Vice Provost (Health) and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London (UCL).

Prior to his current role, he held multiple leadership positions at UCL including Pro-Provost (Health), Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Global Health. 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 and was a Professor in Health Protection at the Norwich Medical School.

He is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, University College Hospitals 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. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020, member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2024 and member of the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025. He was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus in 2025.