Dr. Bonto Faburay is Head of the Scientific Liaison Services Section at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories' Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, New York. He has been a research assistant at the Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA since 2013. From 2006–2007, He worked as a Rothamsted International Research Fellow at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. His interest is in applied research focusing on the development and application of countermeasures including surveillance of emerging transboundary animal and zoonotic disease threats.