Dr. Fang Yuan is an associate researcher at the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China CDC; an adjunct faculty member at the School of Global Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; and a professional member of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Chinese Endemic Disease Association. She is mainly engaged in reverse etiology of vector-borne diseases, genomic tracing, transmission risk assessment, and control strategy research. She is also interested in the transmission mechanism of flavivirus and virus cross-species transmission. As the first author, she has published more than 30 SCI papers on Advances in Parasitology, Infectious Diseases of Poverty, and Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.