Jayne Sutherland

Jayne Sutherland is a Professor of Immunology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and Head of the TB research group at the Medical Research Council Unit in The Gambia. She is a clinical immunologist with a background in multi-disciplinary analysis of TB incorporating immunology, microbiology, health economics, and clinical trials.

Professor Sutherland holds a doctorate degree in immunology from Monash University, Australia. Her Ph.D. and early post-doctoral career focused on developing therapeutics for stem cell transplant recipients. Her research focus changed to TB when she took up a post-doc position in The Gambia in 2006. She leads the Gambian TB case-contact cohort, which is run in close collaboration with the National TB Programme to promote health systems strengthening and public engagement.

Her current research portfolio includes analysis of mucosal immunity to TB; clinical and immunological analysis of post-TB lung disease; the evaluation and implementation of novel point-of-care prognostic and diagnostic tests; the impact of HIV, COVID and other co-infections on TB; pre-clinical vaccine development and biomarker discovery for diagnosis and treatment response. She runs several large multi-site trials evaluating new vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics.