Dr. Jolyon Medlock

Dr Jolyon Medlock has worked on vector-borne diseases for 25 years, firstly in Africa on malaria control and lymphatic filariasis and since 2002, at Porton Down, for UK government health agencies (UK Health Security Agency). He leads the Medical Entomology group advising UK government on vector-borne disease risk, managing UK-wide vector surveillance systems and research on mosquito- and tick-borne diseases, including impacts of environmental and climatic change. He is particularly interested in the ecology of tick-borne diseases and environmental and ecological drivers for risk.