Janeen L. Salak-Johnson received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and an NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Psychoneuroimmunology at the University of Minnesota. She was on the faculty at the University of Illinois in the Department of Animal Sciences until 2017. She then joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2018 and holds the Temple Grandin Endowed Professorship in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences. Her research focuses on maternal-fetal interactions on stress physiology, the brain–gut–immune axis, and the well-being of future progeny utilizing basic and translational sciences. She has attained a national and international reputation as a leading scholar in stress physiology and animal well-being, serves on numerous national and international advisory boards and many task forces, and is actively involved in AAALAC International.