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Sarah Hingel

Sarah Hingel

Head of NTDs

About Sarah Hingel

Dr Sarah Hingel joined FIND in June 2018 and currently serves as Head of the NTD programme, providing strategic leadership across FIND’s diagnostic portfolio for neglected tropical diseases. She has over 17 years of experience working on a range of infectious diseases, primarily across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Her global health career spans laboratory research on malaria in The Gambia to implementing national Schistosomiasis control programmes with Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa through the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative at Imperial College London. At FIND, she leads the development of novel diagnostic tools for NTDs, and plays a key role in fundraising, partnership building, and providing strategic and technical guidance to the NTD disease leads. She has been a member of the WHO DTAG Schistosomiasis sub-group since 2019 and serves as a Board Member of the Swiss Alliance against NTDs since July 2025. She holds a PhD in Malaria Immunology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.