Professor James Wood is a veterinary epidemiologist who leads the Disease Dynamics Unit in Cambridge University and conducts multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases. He was Head of Cambridge University Veterinary School 2013-2023, as well as Dean. His research interest is focused on One Health approaches to infectious disease emergence and its control. He is involved in collaborative studies of emergence of RNA viruses from fruit bats and control of bovine tuberculosis and is one of the leaders of the Cambridge­ Africa collaborative, capacity-building program.