Jolyon has worked on Vector-borne diseases (infections transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks) for nearly 30 years in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. He has been involved in public health entomology since 2002, based at Porton Down. Jolyon’s team run national vector surveillance schemes for ticks and mosquitoes and conduct a range of research in the ecology on vectors and their pathogen systems, always looking for environmental solutions to disease management and outbreak response. His team have been involved in the first UK detections of invasive Aedes mosquitoes, Tick-borne encephalitis virus, West Nile virus and Usutu virus. As an entomologist and disease ecologist, Jolyon is interested in how climate and environmental change (e.g. land use and habitat change) will impact disease risk, including wetland management and mosquitoes and vegetation management and ticks, as well as the role of wildlife and game on Lyme disease ecology.
