About Me

Tara N Gaire is a veterinarian with a PhD and post-doctoral training in molecular epidemiology and public health. He grew up in Nepal, and his work with family livestock farming led to his interest in veterinary medicine and public health. He received both his veterinary medical degree (BVSc/DVM) and MS in veterinary medicine from Nepal. He then moved to the United States for further advanced academic training and completed his PhD in Epidemiology at Kansas State University. His doctoral research focused on antimicrobial resistance, the microbiome, antimicrobial drug pharmacodynamics, and infectious disease modeling in food animals, while also participating in the FDA’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System program. Following his PhD, he completed four years of postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota, with a focus on population-level animal and public health research, using molecular epidemiology, microbial genomics, and computational approaches. In August 2025, he joined the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine as a faculty member in the Texas Panhandle.

Instruction

Tara’s focus is to apply and integrate one health approaches to antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic and infectious disease management.

Research

His research program aims to integrates both basic and applied outcome-driven research that informs and supports animal health, food safety, and broader public health outcomes.

Focus Area:

• Epidemiology
• Infectious Diseases
• Microbiomes in animal and human health
• Computational/Bioinformatics
• Food Safety

Service

Tara is actively involved in several professional organizations, including the American Society for Microbiology, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society, Leman Swine Conference, the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple scientific journals, including BMC Microbiome, ASM mSystems, BMC Veterinary Research, and the Journal of Dairy Science.