Jenny Hill is a public health expert and Deputy Head of the Malaria Epidemiology unit at LSTM. Her disciplinary background is in Medical Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a PhD on malaria in pregnancy from the University of Amsterdam. She leads complex, multi-country, mixed method implementation research on strategies for optimising the delivery and uptake of innovative 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. Her research objective is that research evidence directly informs policy in malaria endemic countries through active engagement with stakeholders to enhance uptake of new malaria control strategies across diverse settings.
Principle Investigators
Jenny Hill
Role: Chief Investigator
Research and expertise:
Jenny has worked in the field of malaria for over 30 years. Her research portfolio
encompasses a wide range of formative, health policy and implementation research
including pragmatic cluster randomised trials and pilot evaluations of malaria interventions in
several countries in East, West and Southern Africa and Indonesia. She currently holds
grants from EDCTP-3, MRC, and PATH. Recently concluded studies include a longitudinal
qualitative study exploring healthcare utilization of the world’s first malaria vaccine,
RTS,S/AS01, in western Kenya; a pragmatic cluster randomised trial of a targeted
information transfer intervention to promote adherence to a muti-day regimen for intermittent
preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in western Kenya, and a mixed-method
evaluation of a pilot of a muti-day regimen for intermittent preventive treatment in Papua,
Indonesia. She has been commissioned to write several reports and guidelines for WHO,
most recently the Progress and Impact Series 10 series on the Contribution of Malaria
Control to Maternal and Newborn Health.
Phone: +44 (0)7732161353
Email: jenny.hill@lstmed.ac.uk
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