Prof. Dr. Chien-Ming Shih is a professor in Tropical Medicine at the College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from National Defense Medical Center in Taiwan and his PhD from Harvard University in 1993. He has been working at the National Defense Medical Center since 1983, and has served as a teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, and professor and chairman. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a researcher at the Biotechnology and Medical Science and Technology Policy Research Center, and since 2014, he has been a professor at Kaohsiung Medical University. In addition, he also serves as a director of the Taiwan Society of Preventive Medicine, an executive director of the Taiwan Biosafety Association, and a director of the Harvard University Alumni Association of the Republic of China. His research areas include vector-borne zoonotic infections, tropical medicine, medical entomology, molecular diagnosis, epidemiology and phylogeny.