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Professor Ibrahim Abubakar awarded Prize in Ceremony
17 October 2023
The Roux Prize 2023 was awarded to Professor Ibrahim Abubakar in London at a ceremony for his work improving health outcomes.
Last week, Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL, was awarded the 2023 Roux Prize, an annual award from David and Barbara Roux and IHME that honours global health experts who have made significant contributions to improving global health outcomes. He was awarded the prize for his dedication to improving health outcomes over the last three decades.
Professor Abubakar has been instrumental in the development of health initiatives for tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19. As the head of TB in Public Health England in 2015, he developed a research programme that improved screenings. Professor Abubakar also chaired committees, such as the WHO Strategic Advisory Group for TB, that led to better diagnoses and increased access to treatment, contributing to a 2% annual decline in new TB cases globally from 2015 to 2018.
“I feel lucky that my career and role allow me to have the privileges of working in a top university in the UK and impacting health policy in my adopted country, while being able to contribute to the generation of evidence that influences global health and health policy in Africa and Nigeria specifically,” said Professor Abubakar.
As the Roux Prize winner, Professor Abubakar will receive a $100,000 award to reinforce his efforts to support health systems in Nigeria and Africa’s Sahel region, benefitting some of the world’s poorest countries, among other significant global health programs.
Watch the video of his achievement about his impact that was shared at the event.
About the Roux Prize
The Roux Prize is sponsored by IHME’s founding board member David Roux and his wife, Barbara, and recognises people worldwide for their innovative and impactful use of Global Burden of Disease data.
About IHME
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME is committed to transparency and makes this information widely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions on allocating resources to improve population health. For more information, please visit healthdata.org.