Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau, PhD, is the Director of the Laboratory of research on Infectious Vector-borne diseases (LIV) at the Institut Louis Malardé (ILM), French Polynesia. She has been the principal investigator of many research projects interested in the surveillance, epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevalence of arboviruses, particularly dengue, Zika and chikungunya in the Pacific islands.