Mehrab Hussain is a Master of Public Health candidate in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He received his Bachelor's degree in Molecular and Medical Microbiology with a concentration in Global Disease Biology from UC Davis. During his undergraduate studies, he pursued infectious disease and vaccine clinical research at the UC Davis Medical Center and also contributed to research on platelet and neutrophil physiology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Upon graduation, he worked at Stanford Medicine in Infectious Diseases and was involved in the operation of clinical trials exploring novel therapies for various pathogens, including COVID-19, influenza, CMV, and RSV. Mehrab is currently a member of the Pickering Lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, investigating environmental detection and surveillance of Avian Influenza. He is passionate about One Health and how these interdisciplinary perspectives inform and advance clinical medicine.