Angus More O'Ferrall completed an intercalated MSc in Biology and Control of Parasites and Disease Vectors with Distinction at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. In 2020, he joined Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as an Academic Foundation Doctor, undertaking clinical and research rotations in infectious diseases. His work included frontline contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic and leading a community screening study for hepatitis B.

In October 2022, Angus returned to LSTM as a Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership PhD researcher in the Department of Tropical Disease Biology. His research focuses on linking the surveillance and transmission of antimicrobial resistance and schistosomiasis in rural Malawi. Angus works primarily under the supervision of Professor Adam Roberts, in collaboration with co-supervisor Professor Russell Stothard and the Hybridisation in Urogenital Schistosomiasis team in the UK and Malawi. Together, they integrate antimicrobial resistance surveillance with ongoing schistosomiasis research. Alongside his research, Angus continues to practice part-time in acute and internal medicine at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also passionate about science communication and serves as a Communications Editor for Parasitology (Cambridge University Press).

Angus’s research broadly focuses on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases in underserved populations, with a strong emphasis on direct community engagement through field surveys.

He first became involved in tropical medicine fieldwork as an MSc student in 2019, when his team identified an outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis along the southern shores of Lake Malawi. In 2021, during his time as an Academic Foundation Doctor, he secured an Early Career Grant (formerly Small Grant) from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This funded a geographically targeted community screening pilot study for chronic hepatitis B in Hull and East Yorkshire, which has subsequently informed NHS screening strategies.

Since 2022, Angus’s research has increasingly focused on antimicrobial resistance due to its growing threat to global public health and disproportionate impact on the world’s poorest communities. His current work explores the genomic epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in enteric and aquatic bacteria in rural southern Malawi. This includes a One Health investigation into the colonisation of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacterales in communities where contaminated freshwater plays a key role in transmitting parasitic diseases. Additionally, he uses metagenomics to analyse and link the microbiomes and resistomes of mammals (predominantly humans) and aquatic invertebrates (freshwater snails) in these settings. Alongside antimicrobial resistance research, Angus maintains an active interest in neglected tropical diseases, contributing to studies on the genomic epidemiology of diseases such as schistosomiasis and noma.