Laura H. Kahn is a physician, author, and educator. She is a co-founder of the One Health Initiative and is the author of two books: WHO'S IN CHARGE? LEADERSHIP DURING EPIDEMICS, BIOTERROR ATTACKS, AND OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH CRISES (2nd edition published in 2020 by Praeger Security International) and ONE HEALTH AND THE POLITICS OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. She is currently working on her third book on One Health and coronaviruses.