Dr. Ihab Habib is Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Food Safety, and Veterinary Public Health in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates University. He completed his PhD in Veterinary Science at Ghent University, Belgium, and worked as academic and researcher at Alexandria University, Egypt; Ghent University, Belgium; Utrecht University, The Netherlands; and Murdoch University, Australia. He recently led projects investigating foodborne antimicrobial resistance across poultry, retail meat, companion animals, and wildlife using whole-genome sequencing, alongside major work within the Abu Dhabi Research Institute for Food Security in Arid Land. He has published more than 100 Scopus-indexed papers and serves as a guest editor for Springer Nature’s Food Safety and Public Health in Veterinary Science collection, as well as a leader of collaborative One Health research and international veterinary capacity-building projects. His teaching disciplines include veterinary epidemiology, food safety, and veterinary public health, and his research interests include microbial food safety, antimicrobial resistance, zoonoses, genomic epidemiology, risk assessment, and One Health.