Andrew leads the epidemiology team at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment in Canberra. He is an honorary associate professor at the University of Queensland’s School of Veterinary Science. His research interests include wildlife disease epidemiology, viral zoonoses, animal disease surveillance and phylogenetics. He has experience working on viral diseases of bats and avian influenza in Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa. He previously worked in the epidemiology team at the Animal and Plant Health Agency in the UK following completing a PhD with the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre. He is a member of the Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Science’s epidemiology chapter, and editor for the journals EcoHealth and Epidemiology & Infection.