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Dr Toyin Togun

MD MPH PhD FFPH

Associate Professor
and Co-Director LSHTM TB Centre

Room
367 (3rd floor)

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 (0) 20 7927 2380

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 LSHTM-MRC Unit in The Gambia. He is the Co-Director of LSHTM Tuberculosis (TB) Centre, which comprises a global academic network of TB researchers with multidisciplinary expertise. 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).

Toyin's 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.

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. He is also an Academic Editor of the PLOS Global Public Health journal.

Toyin had his medical training at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Nigeria, and he completed a Masters degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the LSHTM. His MRC clinical PhD training fellowship was an immunoepidemiological project on childhood TB that centred on the interface between clinical assessment, diagnostic algorithms and discovery of diagnostic biomarkers. He subsequently completed a prestigious Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research
MRC - Gambia
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

TB Centre
Vaccine Centre

Teaching

Toyin Togun is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). His teaching and learning support activities include the following:

  • Member of the Programme Management Group (PMG) for: 
  1. Wellcome Trust-Bloomsbury Global Health Research in Africa Doctoral Training Programme (https://www.create-phd.org/
  2. WANETAM-TALENT Fellowship (https://thetalentfellowship.org/)

 

 

Research

Toyin led a UKRI/GCRF-funded project that has established a platform for clinical, epidemiological and applied health research on post-TB lung health in children in West Africa. This collaborative project has underpinning support by key international research and advocacy networks, including the Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS), West and Central African Regional Network for TB control (WARN/CARN-TB), International Union Against TB & Lung Disease (IUATLD), West African Paediatric TB Network (WApTBNet), and TB Proof – a global advocacy community of TB survivors.

He is also leading the childhood TB Work Package of the EDCTP-funded West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM) consortium comprising 25 research and academic institutions in 12 West African countries. The childhood TB Work Package of the WANETAM consortium aims to improve the diagnosis and management of TB in children through the conduct of relevant multicountry and interdisciplinary research studies of drug sensitive- and drug-resistant-TB within national health systems in West Africa.

In addition, he is a co-Investigator on a NIH-funded Paediatric TB Biomarker study that aims to validate multiple promising biomarkers of paediatric TB in multicountry cohorts in sub-Sahara Africa.

Current trainee(s):

  1. Dr. Fabian Edem (MRC Unit The Gambia & University of Ibadan, Nigeria) - WANETAM Postdoctoral Fellow in Childhood TB
  2. Dr Esin Nkereuwem (MRC Unit The Gambia & Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, LSHTM) - PhD student
  3. Dr Sheila Agyeiwaa Owusu (MRC Unit The Gambia & Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, LSHTM) - PhD student

Past trainee(s):

  1. Dr. Awa Ba Diallo (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal & MRC Unit The Gambia) - Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research Area
Child health
Diagnostics
Global Health
Implementation research
Discipline
Immunoepidemiology
Medicine
Operational research
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Perspectives of TB survivors and policymakers on post-TB disability.
Nkereuwem O; Nkereuwem E; Owolabi O; Johm P; Egere U; Mortimer K; Kampmann B; Togun T
2023
Public health action
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study.
Nkereuwem E; Agbla S; Sallahdeen A; Owolabi O; Sillah AK; Genekah M; Tunkara A; Kandeh S; Jawara M; Saidy L
2022
Thorax
Making a case for investing in post-tuberculosis lung health in children.
Nkereuwem E; Togun T; Kampmann B
2022
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine
Diagnosis of paediatric TB using Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra on fresh respiratory samples.
Sabi I; Olomi W; Nkereuwem E; Togun T; Gomez MP; Sylla M; Diarra B; Sanogo M; Sichone E; Mahiga H
2022
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The need to prioritise childhood tuberculosis case detection.
Nkereuwem E; Kampmann B; Togun T
2021
Lancet
Exploring the perspectives of members of international tuberculosis control and research networks on the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis services: a cross sectional survey.
Nkereuwem O; Nkereuwem E; Fiogbe A; Usoroh EE; Sillah AK; Owolabi O; Tebruegge M; Badjan A; Kampmann B; Togun T
2021
BMC health services research
Performance of metabonomic serum analysis for diagnostics in paediatric tuberculosis.
Andreas NJ; Basu Roy R; Gomez-Romero M; Horneffer-van der Sluis V; Lewis MR; Camuzeaux SSM; Jiménez B; Posma JM; Tientcheu L; Egere U
2020
Scientific reports
Comparing accuracy of lipoarabinomannan urine tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children from four African countries: a cross-sectional study.
Nkereuwem E; Togun T; Gomez MP; Székely R; Macé A; Jobe D; Schumacher SG; Kampmann B; Denkinger CM; Reach4KidsAfrica (R4KA) Consortium
2020
The Lancet infectious diseases
COVID-19 in Nigeria: Implications for Management of Related Co-morbidities, Prevalent Public Health Challenges, and Future Epidemic Preparedness
Ola BA; Nkereuwem E; Oriero E; Okomo U; Afolabi M; Togun T
2020
Proceedings of the Nigerian Academy of Science
Delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in The Gambia, West Africa: A cross-sectional study.
Owolabi OA; Jallow AO; Jallow M; Sowe G; Jallow R; Genekah MD; Donkor S; Wurrie A; Kampmann B; Sutherland J
2020
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
A three-marker protein biosignature distinguishes tuberculosis from other respiratory diseases in Gambian children.
Togun T; Hoggart CJ; Agbla SC; Gomez MP; Egere U; Sillah AK; Saidy B; Mendy F; Pai M; Kampmann B
2020
EBioMedicine
Anticipating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB patients and TB control programmes.
Togun T; Kampmann B; Stoker NG; Lipman M
2020
Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials
Biomarkers for diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis: A systematic review.
Togun TO; MacLean E; Kampmann B; Pai M
2018
PloS one
Identifying children with tuberculosis among household contacts in The Gambia.
Egere U; Togun T; Sillah A; Mendy F; Otu J; Hoelscher M; Heinrich N; Hill PC; Kampmann B
2017
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE
The uncertain science of predicting tuberculosis.
Togun T; Pai M
2017
Lancet. Respiratory Medicine
No added value of interferon-γ release to a prediction model for childhood tuberculosis.
Togun TO; Egere U; Gomez MP; Sillah AK; Daramy M; Tientcheu LD; S Sutherland J; Hill PC; Kampmann B
2016
The European respiratory journal
Contribution of Xpert® MTB/RIF to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis among TB-exposed children in The Gambia.
Togun TO; Egere U; Sillah AK; Ayorinde A; Mendy F; Tientcheu L; Otu J; Antonio M; Sutherland J; Hill PC
2015
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
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