Dr Kerry Millington

Biography

Kerry Millington is a global health researcher with over 20 years of experience in world leading academic organisations. She is passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities through research and innovative solutions. Kerry has built strong, professional relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to support the use of knowledge, evidence and learning for informed decision-making for positive change in policy and practice, maximising research impact for sustainable development.

Kerry is currently Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research bringing multidisciplinary researchers across Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and their partners together to improve health, social and economic outcomes for people affected by tuberculosis through research, partnership, and education.

Specifically, within the Leaving no on-one behind: Gendered pathways to health for TB programme, funded with UK aid, she is leading on working with partners in Africa to develop and deliver a strategy for maximising the impact of research from the programme for gender-equitable access to tuberculosis care.

Kerry also works on the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development and Diplomacy programme supporting the use of learning and evidence to improve the impact of development and diplomacy policy and programmes. Also funded with UK aid, this programme is designed to assist the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and other UK government departments and partners to be innovative and responsive to rapidly changing and complex development and diplomacy challenges. This replaces and builds on the previous K4D and HEART programmes which Kerry worked on providing knowledge and consultancy services from the wide-ranging expertise of LSTM and its networks on health, nutrition and education.

Research interests