Aula Abbara

Commissioner

Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London

Dr Abbara is a consultant in Infectious Diseases/ General Internal Medicine at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. She works part-time for MSF as an infectious diseases/ malaria advisor. In 2015, she co-founded the Syria Public Health Network, Health Professionals for Global Health and is now the research lead for the Syrian American Medical Society. 

She teaches on the Global Health BSc and leads the Global Health Challenges module of the Masters in Public Health at Imperial College. She has consulted for WHO, UN ESCWA and EU on various projects which relate to health systems and the healthcare workforce. She undertakes humanitarian and conflict research, mainly related to attacks on healthcare and communicable diseases.