Med-Vet-Net People – Steen Ethelberg

Steen Ethelberg

Workpackage 6 Leader

Steen has a first degree in philosophy, a Master of Science degree in molecular biology and obtained his PhD in retrovirology in 1997 from Aarhus University. After a postdoctoral period at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in England, Steen returned to Denmark in 2000 to work on zoonotic infections at the lab/epi interface – although the epidemiological aspects have tended to dominate in recent years.

Steen is a senior researcher at the Statens Serum Institut (the Danish national institute of infectious diseases) working on a variety of aspects concerning the epidemiology and control of zoonotic and food-borne infections, including disease surveillance and outbreak detection both through microbiological and epidemiological methods, outbreak investigations, determinants of virulence, risk-factor analysis of sporadic disease, and also geographical analyses of zoonotic disease data.