Auwal Abubakar

Dr. Abubakar will spend his fellowship year at the University of Jos in Nigeria under the mentorship of Jonah Musa, MBBS, MSCI, PhD and Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. His research will focus on factors influencing cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Nigeria using a case-control study design.

Dr. Abubakar received his Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He aspires to become an independent researcher and expert in global health. He has over five years of experience working as a physician and as an incidence manager of the polio emergency operations center in Nigeria (IM-EOC), and he has assisted with health research.