Agathe Verhulst med. vet.

ECVPH Resident

Phone
031 684 2538
E-Mail
agathe.verhulst@unibe.ch
Office
Scharzenburgstrasse 161, 3097 Liebefeld, Gebäude Agroscope U 163
Postal Address
Schwarzenburgstrasse 161
3097 Liebefeld

Research

Current Projects:

  • What is a healthy dairy herd?
  • Conducting a scoping review on the effects of Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) on the welfare of animals used in antibody production.

Research interests:

  • One Health, Public Health
  • Systems Thinking, Transdisciplinary research
  • Animal health economics
  • Epidemiology, Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
  • Antimicrobial resistance at the environment-livestock-human interface

 

 

CV

Employment:

  • 11/2025-present: Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland (ECVPH Residency)
  • 01/2025-10/2025: Veterinary Service Lucerne, Animal Health Department (Official Veterinarian)
  • 2020-2024: University of Zurich Veterinary Hospital (UZH), Livestock Ambulatory & Herd Health Department (Assistant Large Animal Veterinarian)
  • 2019: Conservation Through Public Health Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Research Intern)
  • 2019: Institute for Conservation Medicine, Saint-Louis Zoo, Missouri USA (One Health Preceptorship)

Education:

  • 2024-2025: Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Systems Thinking, ETH Zurich -Systemic Design Lab (DRRS: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems)
  • 2020-2025: MSc in One Health, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 2014-2020: Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Germany