Prof. Dr. Daniela Pițigoi obtained her doctoral degree from the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 2006. Since 2015, she has served as the Director of the Epidemiology 1 Department at the “Carol Davila”University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. She has an extensive experience in the management of public health projects and over 30 years of experience as an epidemiologist, with practical involvement in influenza, polio, health care associated infections, vector borne diseases, surveillance of communicable diseases at national level, vaccinations, field investigations and outbreak management in Romania. She was involved in high-level positions in the development of the Romanian communicable diseases surveillance and control system (in the position of Counsellor of the General Department of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, Manager of the NIP and Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Romanian Ministry of Health). She has acquired practical experience in redesigning the communicable diseases surveillance and control system for Romania as national team leader for the PHARE projects “Improving the System for Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases in Romania” (2003-2004) and “Restructuring of the Romanian Network of HIV/AIDS Regional centres”(2005-2006). She was an alternate member of ECDC management board for 2 years and member of Eurosurveillance editorial board (2009 to 2021).