Danielle N C Castro Costa completed her Master's degree of Epidemiology in Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) in Rio de Janeiro. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate also in Public Health in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of São Paulo - Brazil. She recently published an important article at the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases about the transmission dynamics of canine visceral leishmaniasis. Since then, she has been a reviewer of this revised.