Tinne Gils (1985°) graduated as a pharmacist (Catholic University of Leuven, 2008) and obtained a postgraduate in Tropical Biomedical Sciences (Institute for Tropical Medicine (ITM), 2010) and a Master's in International Humanitarian Action (University Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, 2012).
Between 2011 and 2018, she worked as an HIV/TB pharmacist with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) across Africa (mainly in South Africa, Lesotho, and Mozambique), focusing on access to medicines.
She obtained a Master of Public Health (epidemiology and biostatistics, University of Cape Town, 2019) and worked with MSF in Ukraine as an epidemiologist on tuberculosis.
In 2020, she joined the Unit of HIV & TB at ITM, where her focus has been on advanced HIV disease, drug-resistant tuberculosis, and academic writing. She started a PhD in 2022.