Veterinary, Animal Health and Microbiological Sciences (VAHMS)

Head of the program: Inge Larsen, DVM, Associate professor in Pig Health, inge@sund.ku.dk

PhD coordinator: Associate professor Louise Ladefoged Poulsen, ladefog@sund.ku.dk

Departmental or organizational affiliation: Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. Head of the department: Birgit Nørrung

The Steering Committee at present consist of

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Program description

“The overall aim of the Graduate Program ‘Veterinary, Animal Health and Microbiological Sciences’ is to foster a good academic and social environment among our PhD students across disciplines”. 

The Graduate Program ‘Veterinary, Animal Health and Microbiological Sciences’ include PhD students within a variety of disciplines: 

  • animal welfare
  • bioinformatics
  • diagnostic test assessments
  • disease in cattle, fish, pigs and poultry
  • disease models and trials
  • disease monitoring and surveillance
  • disease therapy and prophylaxis
  • emission control
  • ethics
  • ethology
  • feeding
  • food microbiology
  • food safety and hygiene in developing countries
  • population medicine
  • productivity management
  • outbreak investigations on herd and national level
  • veterinary bacteriology/mycology
  • veterinary public health
  • zoonotic infections and antimicrobial resistance
  • utilisation of data from national databases  

The Graduate Program ‘Veterinary, Animal Health and Microbiological Sciences’ support PhD students around their PhD projects with a variety of courses and seminars with networking and social activities. 

Since we are a Graduate Program with a broad range of scientific disciplines, we focus on hosting generic courses such as Presentation techniques, Scientific writing, Funding application, Stress handling, Project management, Career planning etc. 

Both Louise Ladefoged Poulsen and Inge Larsen are available for confidential advice and guidance for PhD students (the non-scientific part) and help facilitate the contact to the Graduate School.