Jaap Wagenaar was trained as veterinarian and completed his PhD study at Utrecht University and the USDA-National Animal Diseases Center, Ames, IA, US. He worked at the reference institute of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture in Lelystad, with WHO (Geneva, Switzerland), CDC (Atlanta, US) and USDA (Albany, Ca, US). In 2006 he was appointed as chair in Clinical Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The main topics of his research are on antimicrobial resistance and on Campylobacter. He is member of the WHO-Global Foodborne Infections Network, a global capacity  building network. As member of the scientific panel of the Netherlands Veterinary Medicines Institute he was involved in the major reduction of antimicrobial use in livestock. He is member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Fleming Fund. He is director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Campylobacter and Antimicrobial Resistance from a One Health perspective, and the WOAH-Reference Laboratory for Campylobacteriosis, and is acting frequently as expert for WHO, FAO and WOAH. Jaap is Co-Chair of the Quadripartite Technical Group on Integrated Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance and Use (QTG-AIS). This group, installed by the Quadripartite members (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)) provides strategic and technical advice to the Quadripartite and the Global Leaders Group on AMR. Jaap is member of the European Commission Expert Group 'Antimicrobial Resistance One Health Network'. This group assists the European Commission in relation to the implementation of existing Union legislation, programmes and policies. Jaap is member of the Technical Advisory Forum of ICARS (International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions).

Jaap is Diplomate and Founding Member of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology.

In March 2023 Jaap received an Honorary Doctorate of Ghent University (Laudatio by Promotor Prof. Jeroen Dewulf )

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