Antonio Augusto Moura da Silva is Full Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health at the Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil since 1988. He studied Medicine at the University of Maranhao, Brazil, qualifying in 1984 and completed his PhD in Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1997. In 2002/2003 he was a postodoctoral fellow at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK. He is also a senior researcher at the Brazilian National Research Council. He’s been involved in birth cohort studies performed in Ribeirao Preto and Sao Luis, Brazil for the last 30 years. Dr Silva’s primary area of investigation is perinatal epidemiology. He is now one of the principal investigators of a cohort study that is following children with Congenital Zika Syndrome.