we regret Gérard Krause's imminent departure, which will leave a big gap for the time being." After obtaining his doctorate in tropical hygiene in 1993, the physician Gérard Krause initially worked in [...] world from future epidemics," says Gérard Krause. "However, the task is huge. I would like to make my contribution to this." "Over the past years, Gérard Krause has shown time and again how research and [...] of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Prof Gérard Krause is moving to the World Health Organization (WHO) where he will become the director of a newly established