R Colebunders MD, Ph.D. is a Professor of infectious diseases at the Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Tropical Diseases of the Antwerp Tropical Institute. In 2015 he received an advanced European Research Council grant to identify the cause of the nodding syndrome and ways to decrease the incidence of river epilepsy. He discovered that by strengthening onchocerciasis elimination programs, this form of epilepsy will disappear. Currently, he is coordinating an international network (ICPcovid) to investigate the impact of COVID-19 infection in low- and middle-income countries, WWW.ICPcovid.com