Professor Xiao-Nong Zhou is Director of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, P.R.China. He graduated with a PhD in Biology from Copenhagen University, Denmark. His professional works are across the fields of ecology, population biology, epidemiology, and malacology. Professor Zhou is the Chair of the National Expert Advisory Committee on schistosomiasis and other parasitic diseases for China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission. He has written extensively on parasitology and parasitic diseases, with more than 100 peer review publications in international journals, such as N Engl J Med, Lancet, Emerg Inf Dis, Inter J Parasitol, Adv Parasitol, PLoS NTDs, Parasites and Vectors, etc. He has collaborated with WHO/TDR and WHO, including serving as members for WHO STAC on NTDs, WHO/TDR STAC, WHO Foodborne Burden Epidemiology Reference Group. He had contributed, as former President, to the Regional Network on Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Important Zoonoses since 2000. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Infectious Diseases of Poverty (BioMed Central as publisher), and Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control (Chinese national journal).

"One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." --PARASITOLOGY"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." --ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

• R Bergquist, J Utzinger, R Olveda, XN Zhou. Breaking the hegemony of this "wormy world" in Southeast AsiaP Hotez & J Ehrenberg. Escalating the Global Fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases Through Interventions in Southeast Asia and ChinaSchrantz et al. Neglected diseases and ethinic minorities in the Western Pacific Region-Exploring the linksR Bergquist & M Tanner, Control of schistosomiasis japonica: a tale of two countriesZhou et al. Schistosomiasis japonica: research and controlM Sudomo et al. Impact and control of lymphatic filariasis in Southeast AsiaM Vang-Johansen et al. Towards improved diagnosis of zoonotic trematodes in AsiaJ Keiser et al. Major Helminth Infections: The Drugs We Have and the Drugs We Need helminthiasis and ood-borne trematodiasis)R Bergquist et al. Control of the major helminthic zoonoses in Asia: vaccine development as part of the solutionJ Malone et al. Implementing a Geospatial Health Data Infrastructure in Southeast AsiaGJ Yang et al. Climate Changes and RNAS+ Target DiseasesC King et al. Health Metrics for Helminthic InfectionsLisa et al. Social science applied in helthminthic infection in Aoutheast AsiaS Wayling et al. Infrastructures in capability strengthening, training and teaching for the Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Zoonotic Helminthiasis: A Role Model for Collaboration.