Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag is a veterinarian with a Ph.D. in tropical animal health. He spent eight years in West Africa at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia and four years as the director of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Côte d’Ivoire. Since 1998, he has headed a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Since 2011, he has been deputy head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH. He focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of healthcare to mobile pastoralists, using a One Health approach. He is past president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary network of the Swiss Academies.