Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Korea, The Netherlands, Japan, Benin, Malaysia, USA, Russia, Romania, Taiwan, Iran, Costa Rica, Columbia, Sweden, Germany and Italy. This trans-national list of authors provides an important view of the future of public health and the increased need to collaborate with public health professionals across the world to address the myriad of public health issues. I hope you enjoy reading the following chapters. I find them to be insightful and to provide an excellent collection of the ways that methodology advances and systems sciences are being used to protect and promote the public’s health. Aloha