Dr Antonios A. Papadakis, BSc, MPH, MSc, PhD, is Director General of Public Health and Social Welfare at the Region of Crete, Greece, and President of the Panhellenic Association of Public Health inspectors. He is Academic Fellow at the Department of Public and One Health, University of Thessaly, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of West Attica and at the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace. He is also Scientific Associate at the Food, Water and Environmental Microbiology & Hygiene Unit, School of Medicine, University of Crete, and Collaborating Researcher at the Institute of Agri-Food and Life Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Centre. His work focuses on Legionella and water safety, drinking and recreational water quality, environmental and food hygiene, travel-associated and climate-sensitive infections, vector-borne disease surveillance, occupational health and public health preparedness. He has authored textbooks on sanitary legislation and inspection of food premises used in the national EUDOXUS system and co-authored national COVID-19 protocols. He is a WHO-certified trainer for ship sanitation and a nationally accredited trainer for public health inspectors and supervisors. He coordinates regional projects including the EU-funded IwaterMap and DxHub on rapid pathogen diagnosis, serves as a reviewer for several MDPI journals, and is a member of national public health committees.