 Hi, my name is Rainier Ase and I'm an Illy scientist, a post-doctoral scientist. My area of focus is natural resource management. I'm based at the University of Gajramada in Indonesia, and I'm originally from Boston, so being in Southeast Asia is quite an adventure for me. This is the first time working in the Southeast Asia region. I've mostly worked in West Africa with Illry in Mali. I work on the ECOSADE project, and the long name for the project is Ecosystem Approaches to Better Management of Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases. So what does the project do? The project is involved with working on eco-health research approaches with six different teams, country teams, and two university-based teams. And essentially it's using a holistic or systems perspective on looking at zoonotic diseases, so diseases that affect both humans and animals, and also looking at the environment in terms of these diseases and the livestock production systems that are connected to these zoonotic diseases. What's exciting about this project is that it's in six different countries, a range of different activities, and hopefully a range of different outputs. There are many outputs that are already happening in terms of research and in terms of development. So we just recently had our regional meeting. So this is halfway into the project cycle. And here at the meeting we kind of look back to consolidate lessons learned and to assess where we've come from and where we're going. And so right now we're moving towards how will we disseminate our findings, how will we connect to policy makers, and how will we put our findings from these six different research teams into a bigger picture in terms of understanding how it fits into some of the CGIAR mega-programs and some of the regional issues that are important.