Dr. Massimo Ciccozzi is an Associate professor in Epidemiology and Statistics at the University of Biomedical Campus in Rome and a Researcher in epidemiology, biostatistics and viruses evolution at the Italian National Institute of Health (Department of Infection Diseases) in Rome, Italy. He is a WHO expert consultant for Serbia and Montenegro for planning and organizing second-generation HIV surveillance systems, an Italian Expert consultant for surveillance systems and molecular epidemiological studies in China and an Expert consultant in epidemiology in Montenegro. He is the Director and teacher of several courses in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Phylogenetics and evolutionary analysis at Italian and foreign universities. His research is mainly focused on epidemiology, biostatistics and viruses’ evolution, epidemiology and surveillance systems, molecular epidemiology and phylogeny on HIV, and evolutionary studies on SARS and Avian Flu.