Dr Fooks is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. Dr Fooks is Director of a World Health Organisation Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Collaborating Centre and is a WOAH Reference Expert for rabies. In 2005, Dr Fooks presented The Arthur Leighton-Young Memorial Prize Lecture and in 2006 was awarded the Camille Geurin prize by the Veterinary Academy of France for his book entitled ‘Historical Perspective of Rabies in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin’. Dr Fooks has co-edited and published additional books on rabies including, ‘Towards the Elimination of Rabies in Eurasia (2008), ‘Rabies: Towards Sustainable Prevention at the Source’ (2012), ‘Rabies’ (2018), ‘Rabies: Scientific Basis of the Disease and Its Management’, 4th Edition (2020) and ‘Rabies: Scientific Basis of the Disease and Its Management’, 5th Edition (2025). In 2021, Dr Fooks was a global recipient of an MSD Rabies Hero Award. More recently, in 2024, Dr Fooks was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Dr Fooks has published more than 400 scientific reports (h-index = 78) in international journals on a variety of viral pathogens, and his scientific research remains focused on ‘One Health’, particularly emerging and zoonotic RNA viruses.