Epidemiology and Disease Control

The Epidemiology and Disease Control Research Group carries out research, teaching and contingency work related to epidemiology and disease control primarily in animal populations. We do so via collaborations in a variety of projects and organisational constructs, which often has an ‘amoeboid’ structure, i.e., ad hoc collaborations of variable duration and intensity involving different individuals. This secures a high degree of flexibility and use of our wide range of competences to support a wide range of research projects. Commonalities are therefore mostly around teaching (in infectious disease epidemiology, animal health economics, biostatistics, data science and modelling, risk assessment, critical reading, One Health approaches and others) for veterinary medicine students, PhD students and others, and veterinary contingency work, which is done mostly under service contracts for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration /The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Sub-groups include

• Avian Influenza Epidemiology (led by Senior Researcher Carsten Kirkeby)
• Udder Health Epidemiology Group (led by Senior Researcher Carsten Kirkeby)
• Vector-borne diseases (led by Senior Researcher René Bødker)
• Computational and statistical methodology for disease systems (CoStMoDS, led by Professor Matt Denwood)
• Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Assessment (led by Professor Søren Saxmose Nielsen)

Group leader

Professor Søren Saxmose Nielsen
Grønnegårdsvej 8,
1870 Frederiksberg C