Kristine Mørch, MD, PhD, is head of National Center for Tropical Infectious Diseases at Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, Haukeland university hospital. She is also associate professor at Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen. Her main research interest is the field of tropical infectious diseases, particularly acute febrile diseases and malaria, as well as giardiasis with focus on resistance and treatment of metronidazol refractory infections.