Seye Abimbola

Dr Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria, currently serving as an associate professor and principal research fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney in Australia. His teaching, research, and writing focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and health system innovations.

Dr Abimbola was awarded the Prince Claus Chair at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for his work on justice in global health research (2020-2022). He also received an Australian Research Council Discovery Award to study dignity-based practices in health (equity) research (2023-2025). 

He was the inaugural editor in chief of BMJ Global Health (2015-2024), the Radulovacki Visiting Scholar in Global Health at Northwestern University in the United States of America (2023-2024), and the Thinker in Residence at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research based at the World Health Organization (2023-2024).

Dr Abimbola's book, a collected volume of his essays titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" was published by IRD Editions in 2024.