Marisa Zenaide Ribeiro Gomes is a senior researcher in public health and professor of medicine in the postgraduate course in tropical medicine at Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2006). She is also an infectious disease physician at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro State University. She has Global Clinical Scholar Research Training and Harvard Medical School training (2019–2020), and she was a visiting scientist in the Department of Infectious Diseases at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA (2010–2014). Dr. Gomes received her MD (1985), MSc (1995), and PhD (2002) degrees in infectious diseases from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, along with an MBA in health management (IBMEC, 2002). She has been working in infectious disease-specialized hospitals since 1991, as well as with infection control in federal hospitals in the last 20 years. She has conducted research on epidemiology, risk factors, natural history, microbiology, diagnosis and/or management of healthcare-associated infections, sepsis, bacterial infection, invasive fungal infection, and antimicrobial resistance. Currently, she is a member of the ESCMID Study Group for Bloodstream Infections, Endocarditis, and Sepsis (ESGBIES). During her career, she has received some awards, as listed on her curriculum lattes http://lattes.cnpq.br/2479731271569025.