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Associate Professor Ken Winkel, currently a teaching specialist within the Melbourne School of Public Health (MSPH), is the former Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU) at the University of Melbourne as well as a Past President of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. He is the ‘Healthy Country, People and Community’ Research Cluster Lead at the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute. He coordinates postgraduate healthcare sustainability and undergraduate One Health teaching. His research addresses diverse aspects of planetary and one health theory and practice. Dr Winkel is an alumnus of the University of Melbourne (PhD, Walter and Elisa Hall Institute), the University of Queensland (MBBS) (BMedSci, Tropical Health Program, QIMR) and the Swiss Tropical Institute. Dr Winkel has published in Nature, Immunity, The Lancet and The Lancet Planetary Health on diverse One Health topics and has secured more than $8M in funding across the medicine/nature interface. He also featured in David Attenboroughs ‘Animal Crime Scene’ series (‘Outback Assassin’ episode).