Mo Salman has served as a professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Colorado State University (CSU) for over 40 years. He is also the founding director of the Animal Population Health Institute at CSU and was honored with the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine 2017 Helwig-Jennings Award for his outstanding and prolonged service to the organization. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Pathology (1983) and a Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1980) from the University of California, Davis, in addition to his veterinary degree from the University of Baghdad. He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. His research interests focus on surveillance and survey methodologies for animal diseases with an emphasis on infectious diseases.