Sarah Cleaveland, OBE VetMB PhD MRCVS FRSE FMedSci FRS is a veterinary epidemiologist based at the University of Glasgow, U.K, who leads an inter-disciplinary One Health research programme in East Africa. After training as a veterinarian at the University of Cambridge, she carried out her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focusing on rabies, which continues to be an area of interest. Her research in Tanzania now also addresses a wide range of other zoonotic and livestock disease problems affecting human and animal health, rural livelihoods and wildlife conservation. Prof. Cleaveland is involved in several graduate training programmes and One Health capacity-strengthening initiatives with partner institutions across East and West Africa. Prof. Cleaveland was a founding director of the Alliance for Rabies Control and contributes to the United Against Rabies Forum that is coordinating international efforts towards the global elimination of canine rabies. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society and is a member of the US Academy of Medicine.