Paul Barrow is a professor of veterinary infectious diseases at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He trained as a medical microbiologist at the University of Bristol and spent 25 years in government research at Houghton Poultry Research Station and the Institute for Animal Health as Head of Zoonoses Research. His main areas of expertise are enteric bacterial infections in poultry and pigs, and he has an international reputation in poultry salmonellosis. He had an honorary chair at the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has extensive collaborative contacts in China and Brazil. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 35 review articles, and 3 books.