Sean Shadomy has served as the loaned public health expert and liaison for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) One Health Office to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since January 2016. He works on country, regional, and global development projects for capacity building such as applied veterinary epidemiology training, tools supporting coordinated surveillance, and disease control such as the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030, and guidance on brucellosis elimination. From 2004 to 2015 he was the CDC senior epidemiologist for bacterial zoonotic diseases including anthrax and leptospirosis, and previously he worked in vaccine safety research at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and at CDC. His scientific interests include the development of cost-effective and sustainable prevention and control strategies for zoonotic diseases, the ecology of zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, and the promotion of coordinated animal and human health surveillance and the one health concept. He received his Ph.D. in veterinary medicine and he received his M.P.H from the University of Texas - Houston School of Public Health.