Gyanendra Gongal Senior Public Health Officer, World Health Organization WHO Regional Office for South East Asia
Dr Gyanendra Gongal is a Senior Public Health Officer at the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia. He joined the WHO in 2006. He is an adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Moscow Veterinary Academy and an MSc in Epidemiology from the Freie Universität of Berlin. He worked in various capacities under the Ministries of Health and Agriculture in Nepal for 17 years. He has been an active member of the regional tripartite group (FAO-OIE-WHO) in the Asia-Pacific region to advocate for the operationalization of ‘One Health’ in tripartite platforms since 2010, which has helped promote a better understanding of intersectoral collaboration to address rabies and emerging zoonoses. He has developed regional strategies, guidelines, and policy papers for preventing and controlling emerging infectious diseases, including rabies and zoonoses. He served as a member of the OIE Adhoc Group on Rabies in 2010. He is vice chair of the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network (GLEAN) and a member of the WHO Ethical Review Committee. He has attended over 450 national and international meetings, conferences, and workshops and published more than 85 technical articles. He also reviews 50 international journals (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-7569). He received a Young Scientist Award from the Nepal Academy for Science and Technology in 1999 and the WHO Award for Excellence in 2016. He is an honorary member of the Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India. He speaks English, Russian, German, and Asian languages.