My original work was on dairy cows and calves: descriptive epidemiology, risk-factor analyses, and also long-term consequences of diseases. I have been Chief Editor of the journal,"Preventive Veterinary Medicine" for over a decade, so I have considerable insight into "who is doing what, and where." My current research role is primarily as a collaborator for issues of study design and analysis throughout the Veterinary College and also in the Department of Animal Sciences; I therefore at any one time am usually involved in 10 or 12 varied applied projects (ranging from randomized clinical trials through retrospective studies; and for all kinds of animal species).