Ibrahim Abubakar (MBBS, DPH, MSc, PhD, FFPH, FRCPE, FRCP) is a Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, UCL and the MRC Clinical Trials Unit. He is Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. He also heads the TB Section at the National Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England (PHE), Colindale, London. Prior to his appointment at UCL, he was Professor in Health Protection at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. He qualified in medicine in 1992 and initially trained in general medicine before specialising in public health medicine. His academic public health training was undertaken at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. In addition to advising the Department of Health on tuberculosis control, he runs a programme of research on tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. He is a member of the WHO Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement and serves on/chaired several working groups for the European Centre for Disease Control and the WHO.