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Olaf Berke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, specializing in statistical epidemiology, particularly in veterinary epidemiology and biostatistics. He leads the Statistical Consulting Group and is actively involved in advancing statistical methodologies in the context of veterinary public health sciences. His primary research interests encompass spatial and geographical epidemiology, focusing on the application of biostatistics to time series analysis, disease surveillance, and meta-analysis. Berke's research has significant implications for various commodity groups, including swine, dairy cows, and human health related to zoonoses such as West Nile virus and Echinococcus multilocularis. He has supervised numerous graduate students on projects addressing topics like scrapie in small ruminants, the impacts of heat waves on human and dairy health, and historical epidemics. His academic contributions extend to editorial roles in several veterinary journals and a tenured faculty position at the University of Guelph since 2006.
University of Guelph • Guelph, Canada
Associate Professor in Statistical Epidemiology, leading the Statistical Consulting Group.
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover • Hannover, Germany
Worked in the Department of Biometry, Epidemiology, and Information Processing.
Department of Clinical Studies. Offers MSc by thesis (2 years) and MSc by coursework (1 year).