Andrew Hope is a Senior Programme Manager working in the Departments of Vector Biology and International Public Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). His work focuses on the large-scale implementation of tsetse control using Tiny Targets to accelerate the elimination of Gambian human African trypanosomiasis. Andrew is principal investigator for LSTM on the Trypa-NO! 3 and TrypElim projects which provide technical support to national control programmes in Uganda, South Sudan, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. His group’s work on the development and subsequent scaling-up of Tiny Target implementation led to LSTM being awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2023.

Before he joined LSTM, Andrew worked for several different NGOs implementing disease control programmes in South Sudan and Central African Republic.

He obtained a BSc in Biology and Finance from Keele University and MSc in Biology and Control of Disease Vectors from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Andrew’s PhD studies were carried out at the Pirbright Institute in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, where he investigated host location behaviour of British culicoides species that transmit bluetongue and schmallenberg viruses to livestock.