**About the Editors**

**Peter A. Leggat** AM, ADC, is currently Professor and Co-Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases (AUS-131), College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University (JCU), Australia. He served as an elected staff member on the JCU Council from 2005 to 2018. He has served on JCU Academic Board since 2018 and is currently the Deputy Chairperson. Professor Leggat has more than three decades of experience in medicine and higher education in Australia and Internationally. He is a specialist in public health medicine and the President of the International Society of Travel Medicine and President of The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. At JCU, throughout his academic career, he has been seconded for various senior academic positions, including Dean. A former Fulbright Scholar, Professor Leggat has published more than 500 journal papers; more than 100 chapters; and more than 35 books, directories and proceedings.

**John Frean** is qualified in medicine and pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds postgraduate qualifications from South African, British and Australian institutions. He currently holds senior positions in the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD); has a joint academic appointment in the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand; and is an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria. His interest is in infectious diseases, particularly tropical, parasitic and zoonotic diseases.

**Lucille Blumberg** is currently a Consultant at Right to Care (RTC). She focuses on creating a One Health programme within RTC, especially for rabies, and on responding to health emergencies in South Africa and its surrounding region. Until 30 September 2021, she was the Deputy Director at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service, and the founding head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response. She is currently a Medical Consultant to the Division for Outbreak Preparedness and Response (incudes the Travel medicine Unit) and a Medical Consultant to the Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, where her major focus is on malaria, rabies, viral haemorrhagic fevers, zoonotic diseases and travel-related infections. She has worked on a number of outbreaks including rabies, avian influenza, cholera, typhoid and the Lujo virus. She is a medical graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand; an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch; and a lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has specialist qualifications in clinical microbiology, travel medicine and infectious diseases.
