Dr. Richard is a Public Health Medicine Specialist and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He served the Ministry of Health for about 24 years, 16 years of which were spent as a Public Health Medicine Specialist, before he joined Universiti Malaysia Sabah in August 2018 as a Medical Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He held various post while in the Ministry of Health, and the most extended position he held was Senior Principal Assistant Director (Tuberculosis & Leprosy Control). He has vast experience in tuberculosis epidemiology and control. Dr. Richard’s research focuses on the epidemiology and intervention of infectious diseases, with an emphasis on tuberculosis prevention and control. He is currently involved in a clinical trial for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Sabah. Currently, he is actively lecturing in the subjects of epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He also supervises medical postgraduate student research projects.