Dr. Laura H. Kahn is a physician and research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. In April 2006, she published  Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in Emerging Infectious Diseases, which helped launch the One Health Initiative ( www.onehealthinitiative.com). She is the author of  Who's in Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises published in 2009 by Praeger Security International. She writes columns for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is publishing her second book,  One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance, this August with Johns Hopkins University Press. 

In 2010, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) awarded her with an honorary diploma for her work in One Health. In 2014, she received a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians. This spring, she is teaching the course, "Hogs, Bats, and Ebola: An Introduction to One Health policy," that she developed for Princeton University freshmen.