Una Europa One Health webinar: One Health in Action - November 6, 2025

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.

Neringa Grabaziute has 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. Beyond business, she has contributed to global animal health initiatives, including volunteering with Mission Rabies in Uganda, supporting Mayhew Rabies mass vaccination program in Afghanistan, and contributing to product launches in the Baltics and projects in Ukraine. Neringa was also a One Health Initiative delegate at MSD Animal Health for the United Arab Emirates and the region in 2021-2022. She is passionate about educating vets and vet staff at small animal practices, K9s and equine stables in the region.

Essi M. Korhonen is an University Researcher, PhD, and docent of virology at the University of Helsinki, 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.

Prof. Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, DVM, PhD is Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance Unit at the Complutense University in Madrid, and Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology at the University for Development Studies in Ghana. He gained his DVM in 1996 studying in Spain and Germany and his european PhD in 2001. After his Postdoc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris he received a Ramon y Cajal tenure-track contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science to return to Spain. He achieved in 2008 his position as Professor in Complutense University of Madrid. In 2011 he was awarded the National Microbiology Award, the bianual Jaime Ferran Award from the Spanish Society for Microbiology, and in 2018 the National Award for Antimicrobial Resistance. Currently he leads ARU working on molecular microbiology and the ecology of antimicrobial resistance in Madrid. His research interests focus on the role the ecology of antimicrobial resistance, including humans, animals, food and the environment, focusing his research on genomics from a One Health perspective. He is the former president of the Group for Molecular Microbiology of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, and is part of numerous Committees on Antimicrobial Resistance at National and International Institutions. His teaching activity is devoted to Microbiology in Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Food Science and Technology, Medicine and Biology.

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 of KU Leuven. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was involved in setting up a small animal model for innate immune response characterization 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 One Health focus area of the Una Europa university alliance.