Professor Daniel Bressington is a professor in mental health at the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Charles Darwin University, Australia. Dan is also an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and visiting professor at La Trobe University. He previously worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals in UK.

Dan is a UK-registered mental health nurse with over 25 years of experience. He has around 100 research publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is associate editor for Frontiers in Public Mental Health (speciality section of Frontiers in Psychiatry). He is also an editorial board member for the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and BMC Psychiatry. His research interests include multimorbidity in people diagnosed with a severe mental illness, developing/testing psychosocial interventions to improve mental health and mental health literacy/stigma.

Research interests: psychosocial interventions for people with early psychosis; interventions to promote the physical health of people with severe mental illness; interventions to improve treatment adherence

Website: www.cdu.edu.au/staff/daniel-bressington
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0951-2208

Dr Larissa Bueno is a biologist with a PhD in animal biology. Currently, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo, Larissa’s research focuses on the investigation of zoonotic viruses in wild animals, especially bats.

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Larissa-Bueno

Dr Cristiane Cardoso is a doctor of biotechnology in health and investigative medicine at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Research Center Gonçalo Moniz in Brazil. Her thesis project includes the epidemiology of meningococcal infection and the impact of meningococcal C conjugate vaccine. Cristiane holds a BSc degree in biology and an MSc degree in ecology and biomonitoring from the Federal University of Bahia. Her education degrees also includes specialization in hospital administration at Universidade de Ribeirão Preto at São Paulo, specialization in secondary data analysis in epidemiology at Federal University of Bahia and specialization in law and public health audit at Law and Management University of Bahia, Brazil. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS.

Cristiane’s work centers on identifying epidemiologic emergencies in the city of Salvador (three million inhabitants) as part of the national network of strategic information on health surveillance of SUS (the Brazilian Unified Health System). She is also a collaborate researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and her interests include the epidemiology of arboviruses and public health emergencies related to infectious diseases. Cristiane used to coordinate Epidemiology Surveillance at the Health Secretariat of Salvador in Bahia and has been working with public health since 1991. At the Health Secretariat of Salvador she has held several managerial positions, which included the coordination, control and monitoring of epidemiological surveillance through the Department of Immunization and Vaccines, Department of Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, Department of Prevention and Control of Transmissible Diseases, Department of Infant and Maternal Mortality, Department of Traffic Injuries and Violence and Health Situation Analysis.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5432-1174
Lattes ID: 1357305725011914

Dr Lilian Catenacci is a Brazilian veterinarian and professor of virology, clinical and wildlife management at the Piauí Federal University in Brazil. Lilian completed her PhD in virology at the Department of Arbovirology and Hemorragic Fevers Department in Evandro Chagas Institute, a Brazilian National Reference Lab located at the Para State, Brazil. Lilian’s dissertation discussed about “A One Health Approach Arbovirus Surveillance in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil.”
Lilian’s master’s thesis was in zoology at Santa Cruz State University, Brazil. Since 2005, Lilian has been a research collaborator of the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium, and for four years, Lilian was on the board of the Brazilian Association of Wildlife Veterinarians. In 2015, as part of her doctoral studies, Lilian worked at the Institute for Conservation Medicine in the Saint Louis Zoo, US, becoming a research adjunct. From 2017–2019, Lilian was the Brazilian representative of the Wildlife Disease Association Student Chapter. Lilian’s academic interests are in the fields of public health, One Health, virology, epidemiology and wildlife veterinary medicine. Her ongoing research focuses on studying outbreaks of arbovirus infections in wildlife, vectors and human populations in and around protected natural and zoos in Brazil.

Lilian’s achievements include: 3rd International Ecohealth Conference Fellowship by FAPEPI in 2018; 5th International One Health Congress Fellowship by EUA Defense Threat Reduction Agency in 2018; 2nd place in the Brazilian National Award of PhD Dissertations – Science Biology area in 2017; Best Oral Presentation 66a. Wildlife Disease Association Conference in 2017; 3rd International One Health Congress by International Association for Ecology and Health in 2016; Congreso Latino Americano de Manejo de Fauna Silvestre Fellowship by FAPEPI in 2016; Murray Fowler International Conference Scholarship, by the AAZV in 2015; Third place poster in the V Meeting Northeast Wildlife Study Group at Federal University of Vale do São Francisco in 2013; Best Experience of Environmental Education by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment in 2012; Best poster in Third Symposium on Wild and Exotic Animals, Bahia, in 2008.

Research interests: Arbvirology; emerging infectious diseases; zoonosis

Collaboration ideas: This Workshop is in line with what I have been doing since my graduation in 2004 and the project that I have just been awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and UNESCO, called “For Women in Science, edition 2021”. With the challenges of the current pandemic and the need for greater knowledge of circulating viruses, it is essential to strengthening the interface between wild animals and the environment and the exchange of knowledge between national and international institutions.

Website: https://www.stlzoo.org/conservation/institute-for-conservation-medicine/arboviruses-surveillance-in-the-atlantic-forests-of-brazil
Lattes ID: 8034591931258590
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2257-7076

Dr Anna Chruścik is an academic at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Anna has taught courses in human anatomy and physiology; histopathology and cytology; techniques in comparative physiology; pathophysiology; cells, tissues and regeneration; metabolism; immunology; biomolecular sciences laboratory; biochemistry; and biochemical pathways in Australian universities.

Her research background focused on the relationship between transforming growth factor and colon cancer stem cells. Anna strives to excite and inspire students about science by providing relatable guidance, support and knowledge.

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/annachruscik/
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4147-9022

Dr Eamon Conway is a postdoctoral researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. His interests are in the mathematical modelling of the epidemiology of malaria and COVID-19. The current focus of his work has been in modelling the COVID response in the Asia-pacific region.

After obtaining a bachelor of applied science (medical science) at Curtin University, in 1978, Professor Geoffrey Coombs worked as a medical scientist in medical microbiology at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women from 1978–1992 and Royal Perth Hospital from 1992–2012, in Australia, where he was the principal scientist in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from 2001 to 2012. Geoffrey is currently employed as the chair of Public Health at Murdoch University, where he is also a Fellow of the Centre for Biosecurity and One Health, and the senior clinical scientist (Research and Teaching) for the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital Network, PathWest Laboratory Medicine in Western Australia.

In 2017, Geoffrey and his colleagues from Murdoch University established the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases (AMRID) Research Laboratory, a 3.5-million-dollar One Health research and antimicrobial resistance surveillance facility located at Murdoch University, Australia. With equipment and infrastructure support from Murdoch University and an Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant, the laboratory has a suite of state-of-the-art molecular and non-molecular technologies including next-generation whole genome sequencing, DNA microarray, real-time PCR, and mass spectrometry. By using robotic platforms, AMRID is able to perform large-scale screening of human and animal pathogens, including zoonotics, for the detection of antimicrobial virulence and resistance genes. Under Geoffrey’s supervision, AMRID is the reference laboratory for:
- The Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance’s Australian Staphylococcal Sepsis Outcome Program
- The Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance’s Australian Enterococcal Sepsis Outcome Program’
- The National Alert System for Clinical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert)

Geoffrey’s research primarily focuses on antimicrobial resistance and investigating the molecular evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecium in Australia and the molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoea in Western Australia.

Research interests and collaboration ideas: Antimicrobial resistance.

Website: http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/geoffrey-coombs/
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1635-6506

Dr Carlos Henrique Nery Costa MD is a physician, born in Teresina, Piauí, in 1951. He graduated from the University of Brasília, where he did his residency in Clinical Medicine and a master’s degree in Tropical Medicine in Brazil. He completed his doctorate in Tropical Public Health at Harvard University, US, in 1997. He was president of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine between 2011 and 2013. He is currently a professor at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, where he was head of the Department of Community Medicine of this institution from 2015 to 2019. He is a physician at the Natan Portella Institute of Tropical Medicine and coordinates the Leishmaniasis Research Laboratory, Brazil. He was executive coordinator of the Northeast Biotechnology Network from 2006 to 2010, of which he was later deputy coordinator. He is president of the Sertão Institute of Diseases and executive coordinator of the Center for Intelligence in Emerging and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Carlos published 120 articles in specialized periodicals, 193 works in event proceedings and published two books, having written nine chapters. It has three technological products. He has supervised ten doctoral theses, in addition to having supervised 12 master’s theses in the areas of Medicine, Parasitology and Public Health and currently advises seven doctoral students and two master’s students. It is one of the “Friends of DNDi”. He received the Renascence Merit commendation from the Government of the State of Piauí, the Merit award for the Incentive to the Development of Science, Technology and Innovation in the State of Piauí, he was a sponsor of medicine graduates from the Federal University of Piauí twice. He was one of the four organizers of the International Congress on Leishmania/Leishmaniasis”, in Porto de Galinhas-PE, in 2013 and was part of the Executive Committee of the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria and XLVIII Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine, in Rio de Janeiro, in 2012. He chaired a Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine in Teresina, in 2006, an Annual Meeting on Applied Research in Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis, in Uberaba, in 2005, and two Ongoing Research Workshops on Leishmaniasis Visceral, he was one of the creators of Rides - Research Network on Tropical Health, in Portuguese-speaking countries, in 2006.

Research interests: infectious and parasitic diseases; innate immunity

Collaboration ideas: genomics of leishmania; hemorrhagic manifestations in infectious diseases; landscapes in vector transmitted diseases; evidence-based health policies

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7302-2006

Dr Juliana Couto-vieira is a biologist with a master of science in cancer research, PhD in molecular and cellular biology, and postdoc in epidemiological and environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5858-6081