Chia-Hui Hsu is a veterinarian who obtained his DVM degree in 2017. Upon graduation, he worked at the Zoonoses Research Center, National Taiwan University, as a full time research assistant. His research interests include zoonotic disease, veterinary infectious disease, veterinary epidemiology, and preventative medicine.

Dr. Chia-Yi Chang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University. She holds a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the National Taiwan University. She served as a researcher in the swine disease research group of the Veterinary Research Institute, where she was an expert for the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) classical swine fever reference laboratory. She served as the director of the National GMP Animal Vaccine and Pharmaceutical Factory. Her research interests include viral pathogenesis, protein epitope analysis, animal vaccines, and diagnostic reagent development.

Dr. Satoshi Otake received his DVM degree in Veterinary Medicine from Azabu University College of Veterinary Medicine, Japan, in 1999. In 2003, he received his PhD from the Department of Clinical and Population Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota. From 2007 to 2012, he served as a visiting scientist at the Swine Disease Eradication Center of the University of Minnesota. Currently, he is the owner/president of a pig veterinary consulting service company in Japan: Swine Extension & Consulting, Inc. His research interests include veterinary medicine for swine; the prevention, control, and eradication of PRRSV (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus); and biosecurity.

Prof. Thomas W Molitor is a Professor of Medicine (Joint Appointment), Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Institute for Molecular Virology. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of St. Thomas, his Master’s Degree from North Dakota State University, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include molecular mechanisms in the pathogenesis of viral diseases, host defense responses, immunity, and addictive drugs.

Andres Perez is a Professor at the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine (VPM), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota. He joined the University of Minnesota faculty in January 2014. He has held the Endowed Chair of Global Animal Health And Food Safety since 2015 and has served as director of CAHFS since 2017. Prior to his position at the University of Minnesota, he spent 10+ years at the University of California, Davis, where he served as director of the UC Davis Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance. He is also an advisor on epidemiology for the Argentine Animal Health Service and for the Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit of the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. He earned his DVM from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and his Ph.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His main research interests include veterinary epidemiology; the prevention and control of food animal diseases; swine health; disease modeling and surveillance; spatial analysis; risk analysis; and molecular epidemiology.