The Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER) is promoting collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (Canada), one of the Global Knowledge Partners of Osaka University, to further research on infectious diseases. We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a joint online symposium as follows in order to share research information and to deepen future collaboration between our two institutions. We look forward to your participation in the symposium, especially by members from Osaka University.