Emil Kupek graduated in clinical psychology at the University of Belgrade in 1984, got his Master’s degree in developmental psychology at the same university in 1991, his Ph.D. in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College, University of London, England, in 1997, and did a post-doctoral study in epidemiology at the University of Oxford, England, in 2005. Since 1999, he is a Senior Professor at the Department of Public Health, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He has experience in various fields of public health, such as infectious diseases, vaccine effectiveness, schoolchildren eating behavior, blood transfusion safety, statistical and methodological issues in epidemiology.