Roland (Roly) Gosling is the director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Institute for Global Health Sciences and a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. Prior to leading the MEI, Gosling worked in West Africa at the Medical Research Council laboratories in Gambia and spent seven years working in Tanzania, first as faculty for University College London and later for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). During this time he worked on clinical trials for malaria drugs and prevention and tuberculosis treatment. Since joining the Malaria Elimination Initiative in 2011, Gosling has helped the team grow from eight to more than 30 people, with staff based overseas in three countries and projects in many more. MEI has become a global leader in malaria elimination and is responsible for the development of programmatic tools to improve implementation and impact of new (and old) malaria control and elimination strategies, implementing epidemiological studies of malaria in low transmission settings, and setting the vision for future goals and costing that future, amongst a great number of other activities. Roly earned a Medical degree from the University of Nottingham and master’s degree and Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.