Keynote speaker 3: Andy J. Tatem

Andy is working at the University of Southampton. He is director of the WorldPop, Vector-borne Disease Airline Importation Risk and Human Mobility Mapping research projects, and a board member of the Flowminder Foundation. His work is focused on spatial demography, the application of population and urbanization mapping for malaria burden estimation, the dispersal of diseases and their vectors through global transport networks and quantifying population movements in relation to malaria elimination planning. Andy is a member of the Malaria Atlas Project, the Malaria Elimination Group and the Research and Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program at the Fogarty International Center, and sits on the editorial boards of International Health and Methods in Ecology and Evolution. He is currently working on projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative and National Institutes of Health.