Prof Dato’ Dr Abdul Rashid Khan is a medical doctor with a PhD in Community Health from National University of Malaysia (University Kebangsaan Malaysia). He is currently the Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Medicine in RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus (RUMC), Director of University College Dublin’s MSc Public Health Programme in RUMC, Adjunct Professor in the University College Dublin, Adjunct Professor in University of Western Australia, site supervisor for the Global Health department of the University of South Florida and a visiting research fellow for Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. He has more than 90 peer reviewed publications and has written five books and two chapters in a book. His interest is in the health of marginalized indigenous populations of Peninsular Malaysia. He is actively involved with research and health promotion using the One Health concept among the indigenous communities living in the forests surrounding the Temenggor forest in Perak, Malaysia