Jenny Hill is a Global Public Health Scientist with an MSc in Medical Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a PhD on malaria in pregnancy from the University of Amsterdam. She has 35 years’ experience of malaria programmes and research and extensive practical knowledge of international public health. She previously worked for UNICEF where she developed community-based malaria control initiatives to deliver ITNs as part of child survival programmes in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, northern Namibia and Botswana. She joined LSTM in 1995, where she has held several roles – as Deputy Director of the DFID-funded Malaria Consortium (1995-2003); as Project Manager of the Gates-funded MiP Consortium (2004-2017); and is currently the Deputy Head of the Malaria Epidemiology Unit in the Department for Clinical Sciences. She is Principal Investigator of several multicentre research grants and studies, and currently holds grants from EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (PDMC Saves Lives; INTEGRATION, SAFIRE and IMVACS), MRC (STOPMiP-2), and PATH (REACH). She has also been commissioned to write several reports and guidelines for WHO, such as Progress and Impact Series 10: The Contribution of Malaria Control to Maternal and Newborn Health.
Research interests focus on strategies for optimising the delivery and uptake of malaria control interventions which target vulnerable groups – pregnant women and young children in particular – through integrated and cost-effective approaches to service delivery with special focus on integration with community, maternal and child health programmes, involving: Health policy research, Formative and Implementation research, Phase 4 trials, programme evaluations and systematic reviews of malaria control interventions.
