Miss Christine Wilson

Christine Wilson has more than 20 years’ experience working in the higher education sector, delivering support across STEM and humanities and social sciences – with a key research and development focus.

Prior to joining Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) she spent 13-years working at the London Business School as the Assistant Director of Research – a senior strategic role working closely with world-leading faculty in the social sciences discipline, providing leadership of the research support team, and delivering the research and impact strategy and research infrastructure. In this role, Christine was also the Chief Liaison with external funding bodies, provided oversight of the Behavioural Research Lab, and was the Research Excellence Framework Institutional Contact.

At London Business School, she worked collaboratively with academics, researchers, PhD students, NGOs and public bodies, to coordinate the submission of successful external funding bids. Examples include entrepreneurship in small firms (Kenya and Uganda), improving managerial capital and access to business information and tools (Rwanda and Uganda, gender differences – effects of COVID-19 (Nigeria and Ghana), and the effects of landmines on development and entrepreneurship (Mozambique).

Christine holds an MA in Higher and Professional Education from the UCL Institute of Education and a Diploma of Higher Education in Business Management from the Manchester Metropolitan University.

She is a member of the Cambridge and Hertfordshire Health Research Authority NHS Research Ethics Committee.

Christine joined LSTM in 2023 as the Programme Manager on Unitaid funded project ‘Start Taking Action for TB Diagnosis’. This four-year programme is focused on global improvement of TB screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Through identification and evaluation of existing and novel combinations of diagnostic tests, with a range of populations and at multiple health system levels, the project is committed to increasing equitable access to timely detection of TB and linkage into quality care and treatment for all.

Project activities include work in seven partner countries with high TB burdens as identified by the World Health Organization: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

Christine’s involvement and learning on this programme has increased her interest in exploring further career related interests in TB: funding investment, government policy, funding policy and strategy, capacity building, and equitable partnerships.

She is also interested in higher education and government policy, research policy, funding policy and strategy, and innovation in higher education and equity.

Christine also worked at Imperial College London as the coordinator of a large-scale Gates Foundation Project (Phase 1 and Phase 2). The CD4 Initiative involved the global distribution of funding to academia and companies and aimed to create new point-of-care CD4 tests for those living with HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings via the development of novel CD4 monitoring tools from proof of concept through to early clinical trials, to industrial scale up.