Farm Animal Health
The Department of Farm Animal Health is a department within the Population Health Sciences department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
Mission
The Farm Animal Health Department works to improve the health of farm animals. We do this from the perspective of socially responsible and sustainable livestock farming, in which animal health, animal welfare, food production and social expectations are taken into account in a coherent manner.
How do we do that?
We achieve our mission through education, research and social services. Animal health care includes both curative (treatment) patient care and preventive care at the population level. The results of our research are often directly applied in health care and in policy support.
The Farm Animal Health Department consists of the following groups:
- Sustainable Ruminant Health
- Clinical Reproduction
- Veterinary Epidemiology
- Sustainable Poultry Health
- Nutrition
- Research and educational support for farm animals
Farm Animal Health participates in:
Strategic theme(s):
Research group(s):
Educational programmes:
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (in Dutch)
Master's in Veterinary Medicine (in Dutch)
Bachelor's in Care, Health and Society (in Dutch)
Patient care:
Educational clinic for farm animals
Facilities:
De Tolakker, educational and research farm: dairy cattle, pigs and sheep farm with associated land
Farm Animal Teaching Clinic
Farm Animal Research Facility
Do you have a question?
Please contact our department's secretariat or one of our staff members.
Secretariat
Telephone: 030 - 253 1248
Email: secretariaat-DGL@uu.nl
Location: Martinus G. de Bruin Building
The management team
prof. dr. J.A. (Arjan) Stegeman
Professor- Head of Department and Head of Veterinary Epidemiology
dr. M.G.R. (Mieke) Matthijs
Associate Professor- Head of Poultry Health
dr. G. (Gerrit) Koop
Associate Professor- Head of Sustainable Ruminant Health
drs. Y.R. (IJmert) de Vries
Lecturer- Head of Animals in Research and Teaching Support (ARTS)