Dr Sintayehu M. Arega (DVM, MTADM, MSc – PhD candidate) received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2007 and began a teaching career at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gondar. He pursued a Master’s degree in Transboundary Animal Disease Management with specialty in International Animal Health from the Joint Masters Program of Addis Ababa University and Free University Berlin in 2011. Then he went back to the University of Gondar and was teaching and doing research and community services where he was promoted to assistant professor in 2012. He was also the Head of Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies from 2012-2014. In 2015, he did a second Master’s degree in Tropical Animal Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium). He went back again to the University of Gondar and worked for a year before starting a PhD at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. Currently, he is working on non-specific effect of rabies vaccine in a population of free-roaming dogs in South Africa – a randomized clinical trial. Sintayehu has attended several meetings and presented a couple of his research findings in various international conferences.