Cesar G. Victora is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, where he works since 1977. He has honorary appointments at Harvard, Oxford and Johns Hopkins Universities. He has conducted extensive research in maternal and child health and nutrition, birth cohort studies, inequalities in health, and on the evaluation of the impact of major global health programs in a large number of countries.  He was a founding member of the Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health” initiative aimed at monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, and is one of the leaders of the ongoing Countdown to 2030 initiative for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals. In Pelotas, he coordinates the International Center for Equity in Health, which produces disaggregated analyses of indicators on women’s and children’s health and nutrition for the World Health Organization’s Health Equity Monitor and for the Countdown to 2030. He has over 750 peer-reviewed publications with 30,000 citations and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals including The Lancet. He was President of the International Epidemiological Association (2011-14) and won the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2017. In 2018 and 2018, he was included in the Clarivate/Web of Science in the list of the world’s highly cited scientists. As of 2020, he is one of the leaders of the EPICOVID-19 survey, a repeated population-based serological survey in Brazil’s 27 states.