"At Royal GD, I get the opportunity to develop products based on routinely collected data that support animal health at sector level but also at individual farm level. In this way, I really like to contribute to a high level of farm animal health in the Netherlands." Henriëtte Brouwer-Middelsch

Biography

Henriëtte Brouwer studied Animal Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands with a specialisation in Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology. She graduated in 2003 and started working as a veterinary epidemiologist at Royal GD. She participates in research projects providing epidemiological input and conducting epidemiological analyses. She is involved in the development of data-driven products supporting surveillance of animal health in the Netherlands.

Fields of expertise:

• Expertise
• Quantitative epidemiology
• Data products
• Syndromic surveillance 
• Predictive modelling

Publications

• Backer, J.A., Brouwer, H., Van Schaik, G., Van Roermund, H.J.W., 2011. Using mortality data for early detection of Classical Swine Fever in The Netherlands.Prev. Vet. Med. 99 (1): 38-47.
• Brouwer, H., Bartels, C.J.M., Stegeman, A., Van Schaik, G., 2012. No long-term influence of movement restriction regulation on the contact-structure between and within cattle holding types in the Netherlands. BMC Vet. Res. 8:188-198
• Brouwer, H., Stegeman, J.A., Straatsma, J.W., Hooijer, G.A., Van Schaik, G., 2016. The validity of a monitoring system based on routinely collected dairy cattle health data relative to a standardized herd check. Prev. Vet. Med. 122, 76-82.
• Santman-Berends, I.M.G.A., Brouwer-Middelesch, H., Van Wuijckhuise, L., A.J.G., De Bont-Smolenaars, Van Schaik, G., 2016. Surveillance of cattle health in the Netherlands: monitoring trends and developments using routinely collected bovine census data. Prev. Vet. Med. 134, 103-112.
• A.M.B. Veldhuis, H. Brouwer-Middelesch, A. Marceau, A. Madouasse, Y. Van der Stede, C. Fourichon, S. Welby, P. Wever, G. van Schaik, 2016. Application of syndromic surveillance on routinely collected cattle reproduction and milk production data for the early detection of outbreaks of Bluetongue and Schmallenberg viruses. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 124, 15–24.
• Welby, S., Van Schaik, G., Veldhuis, A., Brouwer, H., Peroz, C., Santman-Berends, I., Fourichon, C., Wever, P., Van der Stede, Y., 2016. Effectiveness and cost efficiency of different surveillance components for proving freedom and early detection of disease: Bluetongue serotype 8 in cattle as case study for Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. doi 101111/tbed. 12564.
• Santman-Berends, I.M.G.A., Brouwer, H., ten Wolthuis-Bronsvoort, A., De Bont-Smolenaars,  A.J.G., Haarman-Zantinge, S., van Schaik, G., 2018. Development of the Young stock Rearing Quality score system: an objective and uniform scoring method to evaluate the quality of rearing in Dutch dairy herds. J. Dairy Sci. 101:8383-8395. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-14460
• Santman-Berends, I.M.G.A., Brouwer, H., Veldhuis, A., van Schaik, G., 2020. KalfOK: a data-based tool to monitor and support the quality of calf rearing in dairy herds. Animal Health Report published in the journal of the International Dairy Federation.