Hilary Bower (MPH/MSc Epi) is a public health professional and epidemiologist with extensive field experience in Africa and Asia. She is currently a deployable member of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, operated by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and UK Health Security Agency to respond to outbreaks, carry out research in outbreak-prone diseases, and support capacity strenthening for epidemic disease and outbreak response in low and middle income countries, and an Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM. Her research interests include emerging and epidemic infectious diseases, improving outbreak responses and interventions, and innovative surveillance and training approaches.