Gerardo Acosta-JamettChileFull ProfessorUniversidad Austral de ChileDr. Gerardo Acosta is Full Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master in Ecological Sciences at the Universidad de Chile and PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are mainly on the pathogen exchange among domestic animals, wildlife and humans and its consequences on public health, wildlife conservation and animal health. He has taken part in many investigations on infectious and parasitic diseases in both animals and humans. He is chair of the Latin-American Section of the Wildlife Disease Association and past chair of the Chilean Association of Wildlife Veterinarians (AMEVEFAS) and past member of the Committee of Emerging Diseases at the Chilean Society of Infectiology. He Has mentored many undergraduate and postgraduate students from America, Europe and Africa and collaborated with colleagues all over the world and is very interested in maintaining collaborative networks for enhancing the capacity building mainly of young scientists in developing countries.