Dr Katie Anders is a public health researcher and the Director of Impact Assessment at the not-for-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP), based at Monash University where she is also an adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She has >15 years experience in epidemiological research and public health practice, with expertise in the design and implementation of field trials, disease surveillance, and clinical research. At WMP, Katie collaborates with partners in 14 countries in Asia-Pacific and the Americas to evaluate the effectiveness, durability, cost-effectiveness and scalability of WMP's Wolbachia mosquito replacement method for control of dengue and other Aedes-borne viruses. She previously worked at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where her research was focussed on the epidemiology of dengue and other viral infections in young children, and prior to that in infectious disease surveillance at the (former) UK Health Protection Agency in London. Katie undertook her doctoral studies through the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University (completed 2015) and a Masters in Control of Infectious Disease at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2005-6).