Professor Banchob Sripa is a KKU Senior Research Scholar, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis (Southeast Asian Liver Fluke Disease), and Director of the Tropical Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. Currently, Dr.Sripa is a panel member of the WHO Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG II). He got a highest Ph.D. degree in Tropical Health from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has been working on human liver flukes including their related cholangiocarcinoma as well as other tropical diseases for over 35 years. Dr.Sripa’s expertise includes biology, pathology, pathogenesis, carcinogenesis, and control of the liver fluke infection. His integrated liver fluke control program using EcoHealth/One Health approach named “Lawa model” is one of the two showcases with success helminth control of WHO/NZD4 (2014). Dr. Sripa has published more than 260 research articles, viewpoints, editorials and reviews in peer reviewed international journals and book chapters with citation index, h = 53. He was ranked among world top 2% scientists in Mycology and Parasitology by Stanford University (2022). He sits on the Deputy Editor of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Associate Editor of Tropical Medicine & International Health, and editorial boards of several tropical disease journals. He is a Chief Guest Editor/Volume editor for 5 Special Issues on tropical diseases.