Prof.  Ghassan Matar

Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology/ Facultyof Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Research Interests: mechanisms of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR); molecular epidemiology of infectious agents.

Dr.  Julian Tang

Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Research Interests: human viruses; transmission; epidemiology; antivirals; vaccines; infection control; human behavioural factors related to transmission and infection control.

Prof.  Jean-Pierre Hugot

Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Origine et Evolution, Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité, Paris, France.

Research Interests: phylogenetic; biogeography & evolution.

Prof.  Christophe Sola

• 1. Life Sciences Department, Université Paris-Saclay, Saint Aubin, France.
• 2. IAME Laboratory, UMR 1137 INSERM, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France.

Research Interests: tuberculosis; evolution; infectious diseases history; global history; public health.

Prof.  Jean-Claude Piffaretti

Interlifescience, Massagno, Switzerland.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; evolution; genetics; antibiotic resistance; deontology.

Prof.  Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain

• 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
• 2. School of Basic Sciences & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.

Research Interests: molecular and functional epidemiology; interventional biology; infectious diseases.

Prof. Dr.  Hirokazu Kimura

Department of Health Science, Gunma Paz University, Takasaki-shi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

Research Interests: epidemiology; virology; infectious diseases.

Dr.  Igor Mokrousov

Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics, St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Research Interests: phylogeography; phylogenomics; human migration; tuberculosis; drug resistance; virulence.

Prof.  Niyaz Ahmed

Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India.

Research Interests: functional molecular infection epidemiology of gastric/enteric pathogens at human-animal-environment interfaces.

Dr.  Ran Wang

Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: epstein–barr virus; pediatric; infectious diseases; flavivirus; vaccine.

Dr.  Vijay Kumar Prajapati

Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India.

Research Interests: parasitology; infectious diseases.

Dr.  Tung Phan

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology; clinical virology; metagenomics; evolution; epidemiology.

Dr.  Carmen Taype-Roberts

McLeod Regional Medical Center, Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates, Florence, SC, USA.

Research Interests: genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases; pathogen population genetics; mycobacterial infection; pulmonary fibrosis; sleep apnea; noninvasive mechanical ventilation.

Dr.  Shoukat Qari

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: infectious diseases; emergency preparedness and response.

Dr.  Cleber Galvão

Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Research Interests: taxonomy; systematics; Chagas disease; vectors.

Dr.  Jirod Nararak

Department of Entomology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Research Interests: vector ecology; mosquitoes; insect repellent; insecticides resistance; mosquito behavior.

Dr.  Sofía Ocaña-Mayorga

Center for Research on Health in Latin America, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

Research Interests: chagas disease; malaria; zoonosis; triatomines; Anophelines; vector control; Trypanosoma cruzi; disease ecology.

Prof.  Dimitrios Paraskevis

Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; public health; virology; AIDS/HIV; STIs; hepatitis.

Dr.  Urmila Kulkarni Kale

• 1. Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bo, Norway.
• 2. Citadel Precision Medicine India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India.

Research Interests: One health; precision medicine; health informatics; oncology; omics data analysis; tumor immune environment; bioinformatics; immunoinformatics; virus evolution & typing; virus genomics.

Prof.  Shailendra K Saxena

Centre for Advanced Research, Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.

Research Interests: infectious diseases; medical virology & immunology; vaccines & therapeutics; medical biotechnology; molecular medicine & neuroscience.

Dr.  Loubna Tazi

Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA.

Research Interests: evolutionary and population genetics of pathogens; host-pathogen interactions.

Dr.  Veronica Lion

• 1. Gender Studies Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
• 2. Leonard Davis Institute for International Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Research Interests: gender; social movements; peace; intersectionality; feminist theory; ethnography; interdisciplinarity.

Dr.  Audrey Arnal

French Research Institute for Sustainable Development, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France.

Research Interests: infectious diseases; zoonoses; virus; public health; conservation.