Ian has been closely involved in the organisation of the International Symposium on Avian Influenza since 2006, hosting the meeting in the UK in 2006 (Cambridge), 2012 (London) and in 2018 (Brighton). Ian provides a broad range of disease consultancy at both international and national level to a wide range of stakeholders on all the aforementioned diseases, specialising in science evidence and laboratory application as directly relevant to disease control. Ian is a founder member of the OFFLU Laboratory Network. He is currently chairperson of the OFFLU steering committee. Ian has undertaken country specific missions to advise on the control of HPAI. His specific research interests include the epidemiology, vaccination, pathogenicity, transmission and infection dynamics in relation to the control of influenza in animal hosts including zoonotic threat. Ian holds a visiting Professorship position in Avian Virology at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Professorship in Pathobiology and Population Sciences with Royal Veterinary College, University of London.