prof.dr. WHM (Wim) van der Poel

My current research interests are in four major areas: i) Emerging Veterinary Viruses, ii) Foodborne Viruses, iii)Zoonotic Viruses and iv) One Health.

In the first three areas the research has primarily been focussing on the detection and characterization of viruses in the different hosting animals, as well as in food and environmental matrices. This included the development of new virus extraction methods, new virus detection methods, characterization methods, and also antibody detection tests to study infections, antibody prevalences and dynamics of infections in susceptible hosts and host populations including reservoirs. Through this type of research infection and transmission levels can be elucidated and it also enables studies of virus epidemiology in a broader sense in different animal populations. Research in the field of One Health was based on collaboration between human and veterinary medicine but has been extended to multidisciplinary approaches including much more health related research disciplines.

Within the chair group Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology I hold a special chair on 'Emerging and Zoonotic Viruses'. Outcomes of our studies on zoonotic virus infections can be used for a variety of epidemiolologic analyses. (https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Chair-groups/Animal-Sciences/Qua…) 

• Raad voor Accreditatie (1-11-2004/31-12-2099)
  Beoordeling van geaccrediteerde virologische tests bij laboratoria, met mondelinge en schriftellijke rapportage van de bevindingen
• Pro4Health (31-1-2025/31-12-2099)
  Advisering en communicatie op gebied van gezondheidsonderzoek. |Naast gezondheidsgerelateerd onderzoek voor humane gezondheid betreft dit ook de gezondheid van dieren en de leefomgeving, en voedselproductie (One Health benadering).