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 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, 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.
PhD Students
Kadiatou Koita - Community-based approaches to IPTp-SP delivery: feasibility, acceptability, and systems effectiveness in Mali and Burkina Faso. Year 3.
Hellen Barsosio - Investigating promising malaria chemoprevention strategies for HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa. Part-time. Year 5.
Current projects Evaluation of a pilot of Intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine: a new malaria strategy to prevent adverse birth outcomes in Papua, Indonesia (STOPMiP-2), MRC UK (01/01/2021-30/09/2024), Grant holder and Principal Investigator
Increasing the uptake of IPTp-SP through Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention channel delivery in Mali and Burkina Faso (INTEGRATION), EDCTP3 (01/05/2021-31/12/2024), Principal Investigator of Acceptability, feasibility and cost effectiveness studies
Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention in children with severe anaemia in Benin, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda: Formative research and implementation trials for policy decision making and implementation (PDMC Saves Lives), EDCTP3 (01/07/2023-31/12/2026), Grant holder and Principal Investigator
Safety of antimalarials in the first trimester: an adaptive platform trial in Burkina Faso, DRC, Kenya, Mali and Uganda (SAFIRE), EDCTP3 (01/07/2024-31/12/2027), Principal Investigator of formative and policy research and acceptability/feasibility
Building multidisciplinary evidence to support integrating malaria vaccine with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in west Africa (IMVACS), EDCTP3 (01/12/2024-30/11/2028), Principal Investigator of formative and policy research and acceptability/feasibility
Expertise and professional memberships
Scientific and Ethics Advisory Committee (SEAC) for ADVANCE_VAC4PM
Scientific Advisory Board for Decide-TB
Member of the Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Malaria in Pregnancy (2006-present)
Peer Reviewed reports
Jenny Hill and Annemieke van Eijk, for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, 2014. "Progress and Impact Series 10: The Contribution of Malaria Control to Maternal and Newborn Health." Geneva: World Health Organisation. http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/multimedia/progress-and-impact-series.html