Dr. Siddhartha \u201cSid\u201d Thakur is a Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. He is the Director of Global Health program at both the College of Veterinary Medicine and the NC State University. He was the Associate Director at the Comparative Medicine Institute and led the Emerging and Infectious Diseases Research program. He received his Degree in Veterinary Medicine and Master of Veterinary Public Health from India. He earned his Ph.D. in Population Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State. Before joining the faculty at NC State University, Dr. Thakur was an Oakridge Research Fellow at Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA, Maryland. He espouses the concepts of \u201cOne Health\u201d and seeks to understand how antimicrobial resistance develops in \u201csuperbugs\u201d that affect animal and human health. He has won numerous awards including the Larry Beuchat Young Researcher Award by the International Association for Food and the Outstanding Global Engagement award by NC State. He is currently an NC State Chancellor faculty scholar. Dr. Thakur has authored or co-authored 45 peer-reviewed publications and edited two books.<\/p>\n