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 at the MRC Unit The Gambia at the LSHTM (MRCG at LSHTM). He is the Co-Director of the LSHTM Tuberculosis (TB) Centre, and he is also elected to Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
Professor Togun had his medical training at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Nigeria, later earning an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from LSHTM. His doctoral work, supported by an MRC Clinical PhD Fellowship, focused on the critical interface of clinical assessment and biomarker discovery for childhood tuberculosis. He subsequently completed the prestigious Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship at 91黑料网, Montreal, Canada. He is a member of the College of Experts of the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) and the Child and Adolescents TB Working Group of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Professor Toyin Togun has established a trans-disciplinary programme of research and academic training - incorporating epidemiological, laboratory, and qualitative methods - across the continuum of care for paediatric TB, ranging from prevention and diagnosis to the evaluation of post-TB disability. He is currently the Work Programme Leader for TB in the fourth iteration of the EDCTP-funded West African Networks of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM-4), which is a consortium of 30 academic and research institutions across West Africa and Europe. He is also the Principal Investigator of a UKRI/MRC-funded project that is advancing a novel host protein biosignature of childhood TB toward clinical use as a non-sputum-based diagnostic test.
Email: Toyin.Togun [at] lshtm.ac.uk
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