Dr. Tamara Giles-Vernick is a Doctor of Philosophy and a member and head of structure of the Pasteur Institute, working on anthropology and ecology of disease emergence. Involved in the EU-funded Sonar-Global Project, during the 2023 MOOD Scientific Conference, she drew from the Sonar-Global’s COVID-19 Vulnerability Assessment and covered the topic of Challenges in scaling qualitative data. After her session, she kindly agreed to grant an interview to WP6 MOOD communication experts.