Dr. Helle Stege

Biography

Helle Stege is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Life Sciences, specializing in veterinary epidemiology and swine medicine. She obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 1992 and her PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology in 2000, focusing her thesis on subclinical infections of Salmonella enterica in Danish slaughter pig herds. Her research interests encompass intestinal pathogens, epidemiology, prevalence risk factors in pig herds, and pharmaco-epidemiology. From 1994 to 2002, she worked as a research epidemiologist at the Danish Veterinary Institute, where she was involved in salmonella surveillance and the epidemiology of drug use in Danish production animals. Following that, she provided advisory services for swine management through data analysis until she joined the University of Copenhagen in 2005. Stege is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH) and the European College of Porcine Health Management (ECPHM). She is actively involved in supervising veterinary dissertations and has been a peer reviewer for various scientific journals. Her publications feature extensively in peer-reviewed international journals and reflect her commitment to advancing knowledge in veterinary epidemiology and swine medicine.

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