Sangeeta Rao is an associate professor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Animal Population Health Institute (APHI) at the Colorado State University. She received her Ph.D. in Veterinary Epidemiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and an MVSc from the College of Veterinary Science in 1996. She once worked as an assistant professor in Veterinary Public Health at Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University.