Matthew Dryden is a consultant in infection at the Hampshire Hospitals Trust in Winchester, and the Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, PHE and an honorary senior lecturer at Southampton University Medical School, UK. He is a visiting Professor at St George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, and consultant to the Falkland Islands and St Helena Governments Health Services. He is recent past General Secretary of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, a member of the executive committee of the International Society of Chemotherapy and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.