Hilary Bower 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. She has a PhD in Ebola epidemiology and her research interests include emerging and epidemic infectious diseases, improving outbreak responses and interventions, and innovative surveillance and training approaches.