Prof Cowling joined the School of Public Health at HKU in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2003, and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London (UK). Prof Cowling has been the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2013, he is responsible for teaching introductory modules in epidemiology and biostatistics on the MPH curriculum, and his primary research focus is in infectious disease epidemiology. Prof Cowling is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at HKU SPH. In 2015 he was awarded a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship for his work on influenza virus epidemiology. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ywWh3ycAAAAJ&hl=en