On Wednesday 13 July, Professor Kurt Krause (Director of the Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases), along with other Webster members, Professor Greg Cook and Dr James Ussher (Department of Microbiology & Immunology), Professor Philip Hill and Professor John Crump (Co-Directors of Centre for International Health), and Dr Brendan Arnold (Southern District Health Board) looked at some of the current issues facing us from a local, national, and international perspective, whether it was the current concern over measles or the potential impact of Zika or some of the burning questions on infectious diseases.