Dr. Lescano has a PhD in Global Epidemiology and Disease Control and also Masters’ degrees in Biostatistics and Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), and has adjunct appointments at the Tulane, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest and Texas Medical Branch universities. He leads the Emerging Infections and Climate Change Unit and Masters’ and Doctoral programs in Epidemiological Research at UPCH. Between 2002 and 2015 he directed the Public Health Training Program and Parasitology Department at the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 in Peru, and between 2017-8 he was the Director General of Peru’s National Center for Epidemiology, Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC Peru. Dr. Lescano has published >110 publications about the epidemiology of infectious diseases and also trained thousands of post-graduate students under major capacity building efforts of regional impact.