Andrea Winkler

Prof. Andrea Sylvia Winkler, MD, Dr. med., PhD, Dr. med. habil., is a specialist neurologist, a senior researcher, the Co-(joint)-Director of the Center for Global Health at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo, where she holds a full professorship in Global Health. Her special interest lies with poverty-related diseases of the infectious (neglected tropical diseases) as well as non-infectious nature (e.g. epilepsy), global mental health with an emphasis of global neurology, zoonotic diseases (especially those that affect the central nervous system e.g. neurocysticercosis) with the ensuing One-Health concept (for communicable AND non-communicable diseases), global digital health and social sciences in Global Health. Prof. Winkler chairs The Lancet One Health Commission (together with Dr. John Amuasi, KCCR, Ghana) and together with colleagues she recently founded two research coalitions: The COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition and The Global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition, both calls being published in The Lancet and in The Lancet Neurology, respectively.