I am Deputy Director of Operations on the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), a joint partnership between Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine established to support outbreak response, build capacity for epidemic response and help strengthen the evidence-base for epidemic response in low and middle income countries. My background is in medicine, epidemiology and public health, and my main areas of interest and work are in understanding infectious disease dynamics, optimising disease control strategies, as well as surveillance systems and health information to inform public health action, particularly in outbreak and crisis settings.