I am an ecologist with particular interest in the role of migration on vector populations and on infectious disease dynamics. In terms of human movement, excellent data exist for informing connectivity between many populations and these can be capitalised upon to inform epidemiology. For example, we recently showed that the Zika epidemic likely spread across Latin/Central America following the road networks, not through air travel as previously believed. For zoonoses, migration data quality is more variable (generally better for livestock than wild animals) introducing greater uncertainty in the role of movement in disease transmission. For example, we showed that the potential for an outbreak of zoonotic knowlesi malaria in southeast Asia is critically dependent on how often macaque hosts enter human villages – a behaviour for which data are scant but burgeoning thanks to macaque-tracking drones. At the bottom of the spectrum, is knowledge of vector dispersal. Tracking vector movement is so difficult that many fundamental questions about them remain: How far does a mosquito fly? How big is a mosquito population? How influential is vector dispersal in infection spread? Questions like these drive much of my research focus.