Abdelmalik I. Khalafalla obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1997, and received post-doctoral training as a veterinary virologist at the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals in Tuebingen, Germany, from April 2001 to January 2003. With 15 years of teaching experience, Dr. Khalafalla has been a full professor at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, since 2004. He is currently a Biosecurity Expert and Professor of Veterinary Microbiology at the Biosecurity Affairs Division, Development & Innovation Sector of Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), UAE. One of his significant accomplishments at ADAFSA was spearheading capacity building and research activities that led to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) designating the ADAFSA veterinary laboratories as a Collaborating Center for Quality Management in Veterinary Laboratories in 2020 and a Collaborating Center in Camel Diseases in 2021. He published over 100 research articles, several book chapters, and a book on the Infectious Diseases of Camels (Springer Nature). He was the head of the Microbiology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum in 2004 and the Director of the Camel Research Center in 2007. Between December 2009 to June 2012, he served as the Head of the Camel Development Program at the Arab Center for the Studies on Arid Lands and Dry Zones (ACSAD) as a camel development and health expert. From 2012 to 2015, he chaired ISOCARD, the International Society for Camelid Research and Development. He is currently a WOAH expert, a participant in three ad hoc groups on camelid diseases, MERS-CoV, and PPR status of countries, and a bureau member of the PPR Global Research and Expertise Network (PPR-GREN) of the FAO/WOAH (elected in 2021). He is interested in studying viral diseases of poultry, large and small ruminants as well as infectious diseases of camels. He worked on creating live attenuated camelpox vaccines and is now working on an inactivated MERS-CoV vaccine.