Jordi Casabona is a medical epidemiologist trained in Public Health in US. He has been working on the field of HIV/STIs since 1987 both at the local and international level. Among other he has worked at the Global Program on AIDS (GPA/WHO) and he has been the Director of the Program on HIV Prevention Control in Catalonia. He has been consulting for WHO, UNAIDS and the Global Fund, the Co-President of the XIV International AIDS Conference (Barcelona, 2002) and leader of different projects funded by the European Commission.Currently he is the Scientific Director of the Center for Epidemiological Studies on STIs, HIV and AIDS (CEEISCAT), the President of the Fundació SIDA i Societat and professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is member of the Executive Committee of EUROTEST, of the COBATEST Network and of the RIGHT + Network. He is author of more that 220 scientific publications in his field.