Dr Tom Wingfield is a Reader in Tuberculosis and Social medicine, Deputy Director of Centre for Tuberculosis Research, LIV-TB Lead, and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).

He is an infectious diseases physician and researcher with over 20 years of experience working clinically and in research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South East Asia, and the UK (including in a medical tent in a muddy field at Glastonbury Festival).

He is passionate about and committed to research, policy, and advocacy addressing the social determinants and consequences of tuberculosis and poverty-related diseases, including through interventions co-developed with affected communities.

Tom’s main research interests are implementation science, mixed-methods research, and trials addressing the social determinants and consequences of TB and poverty-related diseases.

Some of his recent research areas are TB (including access to diagnostics and care, catastrophic costs, and co-developed social protection and psycho-socioeconomic support interventions) and randomised controlled trials of multi-faceted interventions for people with TB and poverty-related diseases and their households, to improve TB, health and broader socioeconomic outcomes.

He is also interested in HIV, tropical medicine, emerging infections such as Mpox, and evidence synthesis including scoping reviews and systematic reviews.

Tom is co-lead on the Tuberculosis module of the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Diploma in Tropical Nursing, and teaches on Master’s in Public Health and Master’s in Tropical Medicine modules at LSTM.

He has also taught on the the Qiagen Global TB Summit, the London Advanced TB Course, Medicins San Frontieres LEAP Course, the Health and Human Rights Course of the University of Geneva, and the Tropical Medicine course run by la Sociedad Peruana de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales, la Sociedad Peruana de Neumología, el Ministerio de Salud del Perú and SES, in Peru.

He had previous teaching roles at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (in Social epidemiology), and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (in Global Public Health)

Tom is a mentor for the Social Mobility Foundation, a charity that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds towards their chosen professional careers and he has supervised or co-supervised eight PhD students and fifteen MSc students to date.

He is also an editor of Blackwell's Lecture Notes in Tropical Medicine 8th Edition.