Toyin Togun is a Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK, and a senior scientist in the Vaccines & Immunity Theme of the LSHTM-MRC Unit in The Gambia, West Africa (MRCG at LSHTM). He is the Co-Director of the LSHTM Tuberculosis (TB) Centre – a global collaborative network of TB researchers harnessing diverse disciplinary expertise to end TB worldwide. He is also elected to Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health – a joint faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow). He is a member of the Child and Adolescent TB Working Group of the World Health Organization (WHO), and a member of the College of Experts for the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF). He is also an Academic Editor of the PLOS Global Public Health journal.
Toyin had his medical training at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and he completed a Masters degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the LSHTM. His MRC clinical PhD training was an immuno-epidemiological project in childhood TB that centred on the interface between clinical assessment, diagnostic algorithms and discovery of diagnostic biomarkers. He also completed a highly competitive Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His postdoctoral research was centred on the validation of promising biomarkers in diverse settings, and on implementation research focusing on the practical considerations necessary for successful translation of research insights from discovery to practice and policy in the field.
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