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Ruth Zadoks is a veterinarian and epidemiologist interested in food security and infectious diseases across host species, topics that sit logically in the One Health sphere. She has worked in Europe, the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia with disciplines from anthropology and economics to genomics and mathematics to understand how human behaviour facilitates both the spread and control of infectious agents and their antimicrobial resistance determinants at local and global levels. She has a particular fondness for dairy cattle and zoonotic bacteria but has also worked on viral and parasitic diseases in aquatic and terrestrial wildlife and managed species. Through her work, she has learned that even the name of an organism, disease or intervention can differ between disciplines and languages, emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration.