2025 Public Health Veterinarian of the Year

Dr. Armando Hoet

Congratulations, Dr. Hoet and thank you for your incredible contributions!

Dr. Armando Hoet, a tenured faculty member at The Ohio State University, is the founder and
director of OSU’s Veterinary Public Health Program, one of the largest ACVPM-certified
programs in the U.S. with over 254 alumni, 41 current graduate students, and 5 VPH residents.
Over the program’s 20-year history, he has proudly supported over 122 veterinarians in earning
their VPH credentials, including 37 who became ACVPM Diplomates. Many of these alumni go
on to build distinguished careers in food safety and veterinary public health, contributing across
academia, the private sector, and all levels of government, including local, state, federal
agencies, and the military.

Since 1993, Dr. Hoet has authored over 175 publications and personally mentored 173
graduate students across MPH, MSc, and PhD programs. Since 2010, Dr. Hoet has led several
multi-agency teams of Ohio state and federal agencies to develop statewide agricultural
emergency response plans as well as tabletop exercises that have trained over 665 Ohio public
health professionals on managing zoonotic outbreaks in agricultural settings.

He has led national and international projects in over 17 countries for USDA, IICA, WOAH,
FAO, and the Gates Foundation. As a permanent consultant for Inter-American Institute for
Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), he has spent the past 14 years designing and implementing
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) monitoring systems for the food safety and agricultural sector in
at least 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Colombia’s National AMR
Surveillance Program launched in September 2025. In partnership with IICA, he has also
supported over 100 educational, scientific, and capacity building activities such as training on
CLSI standards in low resources laboratories and the Farm-to-Table study program focused on
global food systems, food protection/defense, and international trade.

As a technical advisor for UN-FAO, he co-developed the FAO-AMR Progressive Management
Pathway methodology, now implemented in 52 countries as a tool to help countries to develop
their AMR national strategic plans for the food and agricultural sector. Dr. Hoet also contributed
to the FAO Global Plan for AMR 2020-2025 as part of the editorial board, and has supported
FAO flagship programs such as InFarm to fight the silent public health pandemic of AMR.

Dr. Hoet has visited over 52 countries and delivered more than 200 invited talks on infectious
diseases, food safety, global food systems, and public health among other subjects. He and his
fellow veterinary wife (or 36-year permanent plus-one) are transplants from Venezuela, with two
successful adult children, one great son-in-law, and two grandkids, who benefit from two highly
qualified and free babysitters.