Public Health Manager
Hepatitis B Foundation

Yasmin Ibrahim is a public health manager at Hepatitis B Foundation (HBF). In the past two years, Yasmin led the patient engagement program, through her role, she supports people living with hepatitis B from around the world. In addition to directly interacting with patients through over 2,500 email consults annually, the program systematically assesses Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) and Quality of Life (QoL) among people living with hepatitis B and liver cancer, to better understand the physical, social, and emotional impact of hepatitis B, and to inform and advocate for inclusion of PROs in liver disease management. The insights developed continue to inform the hepatitis B community partners, providers, regulators and the industry about patients’ challenges living with CHB and their hopes for, and perspectives on, new hepatitis B treatments.

Before joining the Hepatitis B Foundation, Yasmin spent most of her 20+ career working with policy makers, healthcare providers, patients, and patient organizations to improve quality of care, in different disease areas. Her focus has always been on low-resource communities.

Yasmin is a medical doctor, holds an MBA in healthcare, from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in health policy from Brandeis University. She thrives on positively influencing people’s lives, through knowledge transfer and education. She enjoys long walks, traveling, listening to music, watching documentaries about history and human behavior sciences, trying new food from different parts of the world and connecting with people from all over the world.