Matthew Baylis is the Oxenhale chair of veterinary epidemiology at the University of Liverpool. Before joining the University of Liverpool, Matthew worked in several roles at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) in Morocco, southern Africa, and the UK, and spent four years in the wilderness of Kenya, while at the Tsetse Research Laboratory, University of Bristol. Matthew took up the chair of veterinary epidemiology at the University of Liverpool in 2005. In 2007, he established the Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals group (LUCINDA). Matthew acted as the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Institute of Infection and Global Health (IGH) from 2010 and became the IGH research strategy lead in 2015. He currently leads an £8.8m GCRF Growing Research Capability project called One Health Regional Network for the Horn of Africa (HORN), which partners Liverpool with institutions in Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland. He studied zoology and holds a Ph.D. on the ecological interactions of lycaenid (blue) butterflies and ants from the University of Oxford.