Henry Youd gained a BSc in Biology from Keele University in 2019, followed by an MSc in Tropical Disease Biology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in 2020. His research project focused on investigating gene family expression differences between the anopheles gambiae complex species and anopheles funestus. The following year he spent in industry, helping to develop molecular diagnostics for viral infectious diseases.

Since 2021 Henry has been enrolled on the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership at LSTM in collaboration with Lancaster University. As part of this programme, he 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 he 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. His 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.