Biocheck.Ugent launches Biochat, the podcast about biosecurity in livestock farming. In this first episode, you will hear Professor Jeroen Dewulf and veterinarian Elise Bernaerdt discuss what quarantine on a pig farm should look like.
You can listen to the first episode completely free of charge at Spotify.
Enjoy listening!
Jeroen Dewulf graduated as a veterinarian in 1998 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University and obtained his doctorate from the same faculty in 2002 on the epidemiology and control of Classical Swine Fever.
In that same year, he obtained his Master's degree in Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics from Utrecht University. He has also been a diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public Health since 2005 and is the founder and chairman of the board of the Centre for Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Animals (AMCRA) in Belgium.
Since 2014, Jeroen Dewulf has been a Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at Ghent University.
Elise Bernaerdt graduated in 2016 as a veterinarian specializing in Pigs, Poultry, and Rabbits. She has 1.5 years of practical experience as a pig veterinarian. Since 2018, she has been working at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, where she conducts research into biosecurity and antibiotic reduction on pig farms.