Birgitta Evengard is a senior professor in infectious diseases at Umeå University. She has >140 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the author or editor of 12 books and 21 chapters. She has more than 45 years of clinical experience treating patients with infectious diseases and immunodeficiences as well as in general medicine. She has been one of the coordinators of Clinf.org, a five-year international project on climate change and the transition of infectious diseases funded by Nordforsk.