Varvara Mironova is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, Candidate of Sciences in Geography. Specialist in medical geography and biogeography, her main area of ​​interest is the geography of natural diseases and ecological parasitology. She is currently working on the impact of climate change on the areas of infectious and parasitic diseases, as well as on other issues of nosogeography (geography of diseases), such as migration and spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, natural and socio-economic prerequisites for their spread, geography of new and recurring infections.