Dr Sandra Steele is a veterinary epidemiologist and One Health practitioner. She has extensive experience in veterinary clinical practice, then went on to complete a Master of Public Health degree and a PhD in One Health. Her research interests are in One Health, and the use of systems thinking approaches in disease prevention and management and operationalisation of One Health. She is a senior research fellow at the Melbourne Veterinary School, working on the One Health activity within the Asia-Pacific Consortium of Veterinary Epidemiology.