Dr Hernández-Jover is a Professor in Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. Prof Hernández-Jover has over fifteen years of experience working as a veterinary epidemiologist in Australia. Her main interests and current research focus on biosecurity, disease surveillance and epidemiology and social science methods applied to infectious animal diseases and public health. She completed her PhD on livestock traceability in 2006 in Spain. In 2006, Marta joined the University of Sydney as an Epidemiology research fellow and started at CSU in 2012, where she teaches epidemiology, public health and food safety to veterinary students. In 2016, Marta received the CSU Vice-Chancellor Individual Award for Research Excellence and in 2021 she was awarded the Most Productive Female Researcher Award in the Faculty of Science and Health. Prof Hernandez-Jover is a member of the Epidemiology and Public Health Chapters of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists since 2015, and was president of the Epidemiology Chapter in 2018.