One Health and neurological disorders – an interdisciplinary multi-health approach

One Health uses an interdisciplinary and at times transdisciplinary approach to look at the interconnection of human, animal and environmental health in the context of infectious and non-infectious diseases and beyond. The One Health concept is hardly ever used in the context of neurological disorders but has recently gained traction through its inclusion in the WHO Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders. This will attract attention but foremost curiosity about how the One Health concept could best be implemented for neurological disorders. We will shine some light on this intriguing approach by presenting classical One Health neurological cases such as rabies and neurocysticercosis.
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. Andrea S. Winkler
Co(joint)-director Center for Global Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Prof. Winkler is a specialist neurologist, a senior researcher and the co(joint)-director of the Center for Global Health at the Technical University of Munich. She is also the founding director, now deputy director, of the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo, where she holds a full professorship in Global Health. Prof. Winkler has 20 years of experience with both clinical work and research in countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Her special interest lies with poverty-related neglected diseases of the infectious as well as non-infectious nature, global neurology/mental health and global One Health.

Speaker: Assoc Prof. Dr. Fan Kee Hoo, MRCP
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Associate Professor Dr. Hoo Fan Kee is a neurologist, general physician and senior lecturer at the University Putra Malaysia. He is currently the chairman of Malaysian Stroke Council and ex officio member of Malaysian Society of Neuroscience.
Learning Objective
-Gain insights into practice in different settings through knowledge exchange with fellow participants