Dr. Maureen Long is a 1986 graduate of the Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine’s D.V.M. program. Upon graduation, Dr. Long was a private equine practitioner. In 1993, Dr. Long completed a combined residency/MS program in Large Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in which she identified Neorickettsia risticii is an abortifacient in horses. Dr. Long completed a combined residency/Phd program at Washington State University in 1998; the focus of her work was Neospora caninum. Dr. Long started as a clinician at UF 1999 in Large Animal Clinical Sciences. Dr. Long has taught in over 30 professional and graduate courses and is highly published in peer reviewed journals and is Co-Editor of the book, Equine Infectious Diseases. At UF, the focus of her research and clinical specialty has been emerging infectious diseases. Her work has included equine encephalitides, particularly West Nile virus. She has studied the comparative efficacy of equine WNV vaccines and investigated the pathological responses of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis as the Fern Audette Endowed Chair in Equine Studies. In recent years she has been a faculty member of Comparative Diagnostic and Population Medicine and a member of the Emerging Pathogens Institute. Her work has evolved to a One Health focus investigating human arboviruses such as Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya viruses as well as SARS-CoV-2 vaccine responses in humans and SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals. Currently she is the Associate Director of Shared Research Resources at the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute.