Dr. Aubrey Cunnington is Head of the Section of Paediatric Infectious Disease at Imperial College London and a consultant in Paediatric Infectious Disease at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He began his research on malaria as a medical student, trying to devise a breath test for malaria in Kenyan children. He did a PhD, working between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Gambia, studying how malaria makes children more likely to get additional bacterial infections. In 2013 he started his own research group at Imperial College studying how the human immune response and malaria parasites interact with each other to cause severe illness. He now co-directs the Imperial College Network of Excellence in Malaria and leads the London Malaria Network. He works with collaborators across Africa and Asia, and has most recently established projects investigating how new digital diagnostics could transform management of infectious diseases in low resource settings.