Henry earned a BSc in Biology from Keele University in 2019, followed by an MSc in Tropical Disease Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2020. His research project was focused on investigating gene family expression differences between the Anopheles gambiae complex species and Anopheles funestus. The subsequent year Henry spent in industry, helping to develop molecular diagnostics for viral infectious diseases.
As of 2021 Henry is currently enrolled on the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in collaboration with Lancaster University. As part of this programme, Henry completed an MRes in Quantitative and Translational Skills in Global Health looking at health inequalities in England in relation to COVID-19 reinfection, the impact of genomic distance of gene co-expression in Anopheles gambiae, and gene expression and population genetics of Aedes aegypti in Africa. During this MRes Henry received the Chancellor's Medal for academic performance.
Following this, Henry has been continuing to pursue his PhD, with the working thesis title of "Bioinformatic and molecular approaches to surveillance of insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti", with supervisors Dr. David Weetman and Dr. Eric Lucas, working in the Vector Informatics and Genomics Group (VIGG). Henry's research is focused on leveraging genomic and transcriptomic data to gain insights into the population genetics and gene expression of Aedes aegypti globally and derive diagnostic markers, in relation to insecticide resistance mechanisms, with a particular focus on how this varies between the two subspecies: Aedes aegypti aegypti and Aedes aegypti formosus.
Henry also teaches across various modules in the field of tropical disease and is an Advance HE Associate Fellow (AFHEA).