Contact: Helena Ferreira, Helena.Ferreira@ugent.be
The faculty of veterinary medicine of Ghent university trains the vets of the future. We also run the largest veterinary hospital in the country, and we perform cutting-edge veterinary research. Our faculty has been ranked for two years in a row (2017-2018) as the number one faculty in the world for veterinary research based upon the Chinghai Ranking. The unit of veterinary epidemiology of the faculty has an extensive experience in the field of antimicrobial use and resistance in animals and tools to reduce this by improving biosecurity and disease prevention.