Biographical sketch: Julie R. Sinclair, MA, DVM, MPH, Dipl. ACVPM Julie R. Sinclair is the CDC One Health Liaison to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) previously based in Paris, France and now based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her duties are focused on Tripartite (FAO-OIE-WHO) and One Health activities and Emerging/Re-Emerging Diseases and providing ongoing communication between the OIE and CDC. Prior to her current position, Dr. Sinclair was a Senior Quarantine Veterinary Medical Officer in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine/National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where she served as both a medical officer and subject matter expert in zoonotic diseases, border health, and importation policies and regulations from 2007–2016. Dr. Sinclair is a native of northeastern Kansas (USA). She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (French and Arabic) from Kansas State University and a Masters of Arts in Near Eastern Studies (Arabic) from Princeton University before joining the U.S. Peace Corps as a Small Animal Husbandry volunteer in Togo. She then interned with the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division/Congressional Research Service before returning overseas as an Associate Logistic Officer/Junior Professional Officer with the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees in Malawi. In 1995 she returned to Kansas State University to pursue a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine after which she practiced small animal veterinary medicine in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 2003, she received a Masters of Public Health (Epidemiology) and a Vaccine Science Certificate from Johns Hopkins University. She then worked as a research microbiologist on an E. coli O157:H7 tenderized beef / food safety project for the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agriculture Research Service. In 2004, she joined CDC and the U.S. Public Health Service as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. As an EIS Officer, she worked on a variety of infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., hantavirus, pertussis, enteric bacterial and viral diseases, hepatitis C and meningitis) and responses (e.g., Hurricane Katrina, Rainbow Family and polio eradication). With CDC and the U.S. Public Health Service, she has deployed to India, Hurricane Katrina, Haiti, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, and the Dominican Republic (U.S.S. Kearsarge) working on projects as varied as polio, cholera, animal health and immunization and Ebola. Dr. Sinclair is licensed to practice Veterinary Medicine in Pennsylvania (USA), is certified to issue international health certificates through the USDA’s National Veterinary Accreditation, Pennsylvania, Category II (all species), is boarded by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM) and is a Foreign Animal Disease Practitioner (USDA trainings in Ames, Iowa and Plum Island, New York). Dr. Sinclair is a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Sinclair is married to Gaylen A. Uhlich, DVM, PhD, Senior Research Microbiologist at the USDA/Agriculture Research Service’s Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, PA.