The mEpiLab develops and applies new techniques to inform decision making and guide the prevention and control of infectious disease and forms part of an OIE collaborating Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health. Previous positions include a David H Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Colorado State University and University of Florida, USA; a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium Fellowship at University of Cambridge, UK, from where he obtained PhD. He has worked in the Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector-borne Diseases Group at the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Institute of Zoology, and holds a veterinary degree from Edinburgh and a Conservation Biology MSc from Kent, UK.