Prof Adrian Esterman has over 40 years of experience as a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist. His career includes 7 years working as a WHO staff member in Geneva and Copenhagen. As an Epidemiologist, he is a generalist, working across most areas of health and medicine, including working with GPs. However, he has spent much of the last 4 years focusing on COVID-19. He is now considered a leading expert in the epidemiology of COVID-19 and is in constant demand by the media. He is ranked as a researcher in the top 0.2% of scholars worldwide. He has written 36 articles for The Conversation, with over 2.8 million reads.