Evan has been a senior consultant with AusVet Animal Health Services since 2001 and Director since 2007. Since joining AusVet, Evan has been involved in a wide range of epidemiological and surveillance projects in Australia and internationally, including for both terrestrial and aquatic animal health. He has provided specialist epidemiological support to Australia’s national ovine and bovine Johne’s disease programs. He is currently the National Technical Advisor to Australia’s National Johne’s Disease Control Programme, providing technical support to Animal Health Australia, Industry Organisations and State Agriculture agencies on technical issues to do with Johne’s disease epidemiology and control in all species. Evan has also developed and maintains the publicly available EpiTools, a web-based suite of epidemiological calculators and utilities and a valuable resource for epidemiologists and surveillance professionals around the world (http://epitools.ausvet.com.au/content.php?page=home).One of Evan’s other passions is in providing training for field veterinarians and other animal (including aquatic animal) health professionals in epidemiological principles, disease surveillance methods, risk analysis and practical use of R software for data analysis and presentation. Evan has run numerous short courses on a variety of epidemiology and surveillance related topics for the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre for Emerging Infectious Disease (ABCRC), in-house for Government agencies in Australasia and independently (see http://training.ausvet.com.au for details). He has also been co-trainer in numerous training courses on the risk-based surveillance and using the scenario-tree methodology to quantify confidence of freedom from disease using complex surveillance systems.