Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Oct 29, 2018
Dr. James Roth
Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

James A. Roth, DVM, Ph.D.

 

Jim Roth is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He received the DVM (1975) and PhD (1981) degrees from ISU and has been on faculty since 1977. He worked as a veterinarian in a mixed animal practice in Iowa from 1975 until 1977. He is the Director of the Center for Food Security and Public Health. Dr. Roth’s primary area of research expertise is immunity to infectious diseases of food producing animals. He has testified before Congressional committees on biosecurity preparedness, on efforts to address bioterrorism and agroterrorism, and on the need for vaccines for foreign animal diseases. Dr. Roth served on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity from 2005 to 2014.