Alison Elliott is theme leader for Vaccine Research at the MRC/Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She leads the NIHR Global Health Group on Vaccines for vulnerable people in Africa, and the NIH Tropical Medicine Research Center the "Uganda multidisciplinary schistosomiasis research center". From 2008-2022 she was director of the Makerere University – UVRI Centre of Excellence for Infection and Immunity Research and Training.