One Health Webinar | One Health in action

This webinar marks the fourth installment in an annual series co-hosted by the Una Europa academic Self-Steering Committee in One Health and MSD.

The One Health webinar series offers insights from leading experts on contemporary research and best practices in the One Health domain for both academics and professionals from Una Europa universities and beyond.

The webinar will be held in English with captions in multiple languages, such as French, Italian and Spanish. The platform will be available from 14:45 CET on 6 November.

• Randi Lintrup | Associate Director Scientific Marketing Affairs, MSD Animal Health

Randi Lintrup graduated as veterinarian in 2000 and worked in companion animal and equine practice in Denmark until 2012. Since then, she has been employed as a Veterinary Technical Manager at MSD Animal Health Nordic. Randi has a long-standing interest in parasitology and has contributed to the development of PetCheck, an app that uses AI to identify tick genera.

• Essi M. Korhonen | University Researcher and Principle Investigator, Una Europa and Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet

Essi M. Korhonen is a university researcher, PhD, and docent of virology at Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet, with a visiting researcher position at the University of Nairobi. In addition, she is an active member of Helsinki One Health, with a research focus on vector-borne pathogens and the impact of climate change on their emergence and incidence. Essi´s work is centered on major projects in East Africa and the Arctic regions, where the shifting dynamics of infectious diseases in changing environments are investigated.

• Neringa Grabaziute | Regional Manager Gulf & Levant, MSD Animal Health

Neringa Grabaziute earned her veterinary medicine degree and Master’s in 2015 from the Veterinary Academy of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, including an Erasmus placement at Adnan Menderes University in Turkey. With nearly a decade of experience in veterinary pharmaceuticals, she has spent the last 7 years at MSD Animal Health Gulf & Levant leading Companion Animal business growth across eight markets spreading from Oman to Iraq. Her work has driven successful product launches, brand awareness, and technical-commercial support to the markets and veterinarians.

• Robbert Boudewijns | Institute Coordinator of Leuven One Health, KU Leuven

Robbert Boudewijns holds a degree in biochemistry & biotechnology, and obtained his PhD in biomedical sciences in the field of virology and vaccine design at the Rega Institute, KU Leuven. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was involved in setting up a small animal model for innate immune response characterisation to SARS-CoV-2 infection and pre-clinical development of vaccines, antiviral drugs and immunomodulators.

Since 2022, Dr. Boudewijns is coordinator of One Health activities at KU Leuven, where he has led the effort of setting up Leuven One Health, the KU Leuven institute for One Health, to strengthen transdisciplinary collaboration across the university and beyond. He is currently coordinator of Leuven One Health, and representative for KU Leuven in the Una Europa academic Self-Steering Committee in One Health.