Dr. Silvia Bino is head of the Control of Infectious Diseases Department at the Institute of Public Health in Tirana, Albania. An associate professor of infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, she also serves as the regional coordinator of Southeast European Health Network for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases. With more than 20 years of experience in outbreak response, surveillance, immunization management, and control of different infectious diseases in low-resource countries, she also serves as a consultant or member for a number of expert working groups on vaccination and emerging infectious diseases.