Ibrahim Abubakar: global health diplomat pursuing health equity

After postgraduate study in public health in the UK at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Cambridge University, he did a PhD in epidemiology at the University of East Anglia and worked as a consultant in the NHS. Abubakar joined UCL as Director of the Centre for Infectious Dise...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 400; no. 10363; p. 1576
Main Author Davies, Rachael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Ltd 05.11.2022
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Climate change
Clinical trials
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Epidemiology
Global health
Graduate studies
Health sciences
Hygiene
Infectious diseases
Medical research
Mental health
Pandemics
Population
Public health
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Tuberculosis
United Kingdom > UK
Nigeria
Canada
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Summary:After postgraduate study in public health in the UK at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Cambridge University, he did a PhD in epidemiology at the University of East Anglia and worked as a consultant in the NHS. Abubakar joined UCL as Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Senior Investigator at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit in 2012. In 2016, Abubakar became Director at the UCL Institute for Global Health, where he merged the departments of global health with infection and population health and created new centres in climate change, non-communicable diseases and mental health, and migration.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02129-8