Andrea Sylvia Winkler, M.D., Dr. med., Ph.D., Dr. med. habil., is 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 is Professor of Global One Health. Since May 2023, she holds a visiting professorship in Global Brain Health at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prof. Winkler co-chairs The Lancet One Health Commission jointly with Prof. John Amuasi and together with colleagues she recently founded two COVID-19 research coalitions: The COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition and The Global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition. She has a special interest in poverty-related infectious (neglected tropical diseases) as well as non-infectious diseases (e.g. epilepsy), global brain health with an emphasis on global neurology, and 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). In recent years, her teams have been successful in securing multinational large research grants (German Research Foundation, Norwegian Research Council, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Germany Ministry of Education and Research) together with national and international colleagues for research and capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa.  She has worked extensively with the WHO and CDC and has authored over 250 scientific publications in the above indicated fields while teaching at all levels of Global Health, One Health and Neurology in Germany, Norway and Africa.