Thairat grew up watching his father, a veterinarian, care for sick animals. One day his father treated a dog that was very ill and close to dying, and the dog recovered. Thairat never forgot it. He decided to become a vet too. Now he is in his sixth year of veterinary studies at Chiang Mai University. He had heard of One Health, the idea that the health of people, animals, and the environment is connected, but he understood it only in a basic way. "I mainly thought of it as c