Toyin Togun is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK, and a clinician-scientist in the Vaccines & Immunity Theme at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit The Gambia at the LSHTM (MRCG at LSHTM). He is also the Co-Director of the LSHTM Tuberculosis (TB) Centre - a global collaborative network of TB researchers harnessing diverse disciplinary expertise to end TB worldwide.

His area of interest is in global health and implementation research that is centred on the discovery and practical applications of new tools and strategies to improve the diagnosis and management of TB in high burden settings, with particular interest in childhood TB. 

Toyin had his medical training at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and completed a Masters’ degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the LSHTM as a Joint Japan/World Bank graduate scholar. His MRC clinical PhD training fellowship was an immuno-epidemiological project in childhood TB that centred on the interface between clinical assessment, diagnostic algorithms and discovery of diagnostic biomarkers. He completed a 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.

He is currently a member of the College of Experts for the Africa Research Excellence Fund, and also an Academic Editor of the PLOS Global Public Health journal.