Johan F. Bernal is microbiologist with (c)master’s degree in public health from Andes University Bogotá, Colombia. He has been working approximately for 10 years from "one health" scope generating knowledge in antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases in Colombia. Last 5 years, he has been part of the implementation of genomics to understand antimicrobial resistance and the epidemiology in pathogens of global health concern. His working base has been “Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria-AGROSAVIA" involved in the Colombian program for antimicrobial resistance surveillance- COIPARS. He had participated in national and international projects, recently, he is part of NIH Global Health Research Unit, initiative of the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS) at Sanger institute in UK, and for 2 years, he has been bioinformatic area coordinator in AGROSAVIA. He has been involved in different OMS/PAHO pathogens reference networks in latin america (Pulsenet, Relavra).