Dr Andrew Shattock is a BRCCH consortium member and a senior scientist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) with 10 years of experience in developing and applying mathematical models of various infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, COVID-19 and several neglected tropical diseases. He specialises in transmission model development, metaheuristic optimisation, optimal allocative efficiency and supervised machine learning. He has provided modelling evidence for more than 20 national governments and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Global Fund, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).