Sid Thakur
Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
Executive Director, Global One Health Academy
Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
CVM Research Building 490
919-513-0729 sthakur@ncsu.eduBio
Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is the Executive Director of Global One Health Academy and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. He is responsible for expanding NC State’s One Health research, education and engagement efforts and developing evidence-based recommendations for tackling current and future global threats. He is an NC State Chancellor faculty scholar. He received his Degree in Veterinary Medicine and Master of Veterinary Public Health from India and his Ph.D. from NC State.
His research focus is to fill critical knowledge gaps in the complex chain of events leading to the development, dissemination, and persistence of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial foodborne pathogens at the interface of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. He has won numerous awards, including the Larry Beuchat Young Researcher Award by the International Association for Food Protection and the Outstanding Global Engagement award by NC State. Dr. Thakur has authored or co-authored 80 peer-reviewed publications and edited two books on Food Safety.
Education
Ph.D. Population Medicine North Carolina State University 2005
M.V.S. Veterinary Public Health Indian Veterinary Research Institute 2000
B.S. Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Gobind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India 1998
Publications
- Comparison of PCR and culture for detection of Campylobacter jejuni in canine feces , Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2026)
- Genomic determinants of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli in Nigeria: dominance of QRDR mutations and limited contribution of PMQR in a cross-sectional study , BMC Medical Genomics (2026)
- Inter-laboratory optimization for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni in canine fecal samples using gyrA PCR , Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2026)
- One Health transmission of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance: genomic insights at the interface of food, animals, humans and the environment , JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance (2026)
- Clonal spread of blaCTX-M-65 producing Salmonella enterica serovars detected in poultry retail meat in North Carolina, USA , Scientific Reports (2025)
- How does one health fit into current academic frameworks? Insights from a SWOT analysis by the North America One Health University Network , Frontiers in Medicine (2025)
- Risk factors for fluoroquinolone- and macrolide-resistance among swine Campylobacter coli using multi-layered chain graphs , PLoS Computational Biology (2025)
- Whole genome sequencing reveals virulence–mobile element linkages and phylogenetic diversity in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from Nigeria , Frontiers in Microbiology (2025)
- Antimicrobial resistance in food-borne pathogens at the human-animal interface: Results from a large surveillance study in India , One Health (2024)
- Can a One Health approach be a roadmap to reduce salmonellosis? , International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting (2024)