Mary Cameron is a Professor of Medical Entomology in the Department of Disease Control with over 30 years of experience in delivering international level field and laboratory research focusing on the surveillance and control of a wide range of vector-borne diseases, particularly leishmaniasis.  Mary obtained a BSc in Zoology from Bedford College, University of London, in 1983, and a PhD in Entomology in 1987. She originally joined the Department of Entomology at LSHTM as a research student in 1984, to study pheromone-elicited oviposition behaviour of mosquitoes, and later investigated the role of phlebotomine sandflies in transmission of disease. In 1990, she left LSHTM to take up a post-doc position at the University of Oxford followed by a Research Fellow position at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 1995, Mary re-joined LSHTM  and has developed strong collaborative networks on NTDs in multiple disease endemic countries. Her role in current leishmaniasis research projects include: Principal Investigator (PI) of SPEAK India (a consortium conducting operational research to sustain VL elimination in the Indian Subcontinent – see https://speakindia.org.in/), and Co-PI of the BBSRC Gnatwork network (conducting research on sandflies, biting midges and blackflies – see https://www.gnatwork.ac.uk/about/the-gnatwork).

Mary is a Member of the WHO Regional Technical Advisory Group to support the Kala-azar elimination programme in the South-East Asia Region, served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Medical and Veterinary Entomology for eight years until 2020 and is a co-founder of LSHTM's first spin out company: Vecotech Ltd.