Dr. Benita Hosseini is a Research Scientist at the Upstream Lab, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on pandemic preparedness, incorporating adaptive platform trials to evaluate treatments for respiratory infections, implementing diagnostic tools to enhance early detection and monitoring, and applying the One Health approach to address the interconnected challenges across human, animal and ecosystem health.