Tracey S. McNamara, is a veterinary pathologist and a professor of pathology at Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine in Pomona. She specializes in the recognition and understanding of the diseases of captive and free-ranging wildlife and is best known for her work on West Nile virus. Her role in the discovery of the West Nile virus is described in the September 2000 GAO report West Nile Virus - Lessons for Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Tracey served as a consultant to the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee and continues to be actively involved in the development of the Nation's biosurveillance strategy. She served as lead on a project with Russian colleagues on the "Human-Animal Interface" by the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Global Health and Biosecurity program in Washington, DC. She recently chaired a panel on "Disease X" at the World Health Summit, Berlin, 2018. She is actively involved in the One Health movement and advocates for a species neutral approach to the detection of pandemic threats.