Sid Thakur
Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
Executive Director, Global One Health Academy
Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
CVM Research Building 490
Bio
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
- Highly virulent colistin-susceptible Salmonella Havana ST1524 carrying the mcr-9.1 gene in food , Microbial Pathogenesis (2024)
- Antimicrobial resistance in food-borne pathogens at the human-animal interface: Results from a large surveillance study in India , One Health (2024)
- Assessment of critical gaps in prevention, control, and response to major bacterial, viral, and protozoal infectious diseases at the human, animal, and environmental interface , Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond (2023)
- Can a One Health approach be a roadmap to reduce salmonellosis? , International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting (2024)
- Canine uropathogenic and avian pathogenic Escherichia coli harboring conjugative plasmids exhibit augmented growth and exopolysaccharide production in response to Enterococcus faecalis , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Characteristics of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from retail meat products in North Carolina , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter in backyard and commercial broiler production systems in the United States , JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance (2024)
- Megaplasmid Dissemination in Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Serotypes from Backyard and Commercial Broiler Production Systems in the Southeastern United States , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterizations of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Diverse Retail Meat Samples in North Carolina During 2018–2019 , Foodborne Pathogens and Disease (2024)
- SARS-CoV-2 wastewater variant surveillance: pandemic response leveraging FDA’s GenomeTrakr network , mSystems (2024)