 Good morning and welcome to our social media corner. My name is Diana and I'm the social media manager of the IEA. We are live from Vienna, our headquarters, and there's a lot going on here this week. Our annual general conference started yesterday and it will go on until the end of the week and today and tomorrow there's also the scientific forum. This year, our scientific forum will focus on the role of nuclear science in strengthening the capabilities of countries to rapidly detect and timely respond to emerging outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. Bubonic plague, avian flu, Ebola, COVID-19, all these illnesses have something in common. They were caused by a virus transmitted from animals to people, costed many lives, and caused major disruptions. Over the next two days, experts from all over the world will explore the importance of nuclear science in preparing for and containing future pandemics. Follow hashtag Atoms for Health on social media to stay on top of all the discussions happening here and be part of the conversation. Now I'm very pleased to introduce you to our first guest, IEA Director-General, Rafael Mariano Grossi. Good morning, Director-General. Hello, how are you? I'm good, thank you, thanks for being here with us. Yes. Can you tell our followers what to expect from this year's scientific forum? Well, what we are trying to do is to show in a very compact way the situation that we have around the pandemic and how we can integrate the contribution that we can have from nuclear techniques, nuclear applications, from nuclear science properly speaking to this problem. And to do this, we thought that it would be important to bring together in the way this scientific forum has been doing over the years to bring together different voices and different actors and to explain our own side of this effort. It's estimated that 60% of non-human infection diseases come from animals. Yes. What is the role played by nuclear in fighting this? Well, as you say, when you see this important number, I mean, it's three quarters of these cases that are caused by zoonotic diseases. The issue here can be tackled from different angles. You have the remediation once somebody has been affected by it or the prevention through vaccinations and so on and so forth. But we see, we recognize the existence of a structural health sanitary problem that is prevalent and that exists all over the world. And through nuclear techniques, we can in a very precise, very detailed, very focused way identify at the earliest stage the emergence of pathogens that could eventually turn into zoonosis, that in the change could move to an endemic and perhaps a pandemic stage. So it's to be right there at the beginning of the chain, so to speak, where we can help the system in general, have a red alert and prepare as well or better. Thank you. And what is the currently doing 12 countries in their fight against COVID-19? Well, what we did is to come together to think here in-house all our experts from different areas. And we put together a project, an initiative, Zoliak, which is trying to do exactly that, looking at the different angles where we can apply in a more efficient way nuclear techniques, who to help in doing this, how to help them do this and how to integrate this effort into wider efforts from the international community. Hence the participation today at the forum of WHO, OIE, FAO and other players in this important effort. Thank you, Director General. Now our scientific forum is about to start, and I know that you have to go to the opening ceremony. So thank you for this short but very insightful conversation. And I wish you all the success in this today. Thank you. I hope it will be interesting and many will be following. Exactly. Thank you so much, Director General. Now, as I just said, our scientific forum is about to start. You can watch all the sessions live. We will share all the links in the comment section. Later today, we will have another live conversation with Dr. Thomas Mettenleiter about the importance of partnerships and collaborations in the fight against pandemics. So just tune in and don't forget, keep an eye on our hashtag, Atoms for Health, and get involved in the discussion. We'll see you later.