Jakob ZinsstagProf. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag is a veterinarian with a PhD in tropical animal health. Since 1998 he has led a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and has been deputy head of the department of Epidemology and Public Health at Swiss TPH since 2011. He spent eight years in West Africa at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia and four years as the director of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Côte d'Ivoire. He is also past president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary network of the Swiss Academies. Prof. Zinsstag focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of health care to mobile pastoralists using a One Health approach. Read More Read Less