Herman W Barkema

Dr. Herman Barkema completed his DVM degree at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 1988. He spent 2½ years as manager of a large dairy and beef herd in Costa Rica, then taught bovine herd health at Utrecht University and University of Zimbabwe, and worked as an epidemiologist for the Dutch Animal Health Service while completing his PhD. In 2001, Dr. Barkema moved to the University of Prince Edward Island. In 2006, he subsequently moved to the University of Calgary, where he founded the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s (UCVM) Dept. of Production Animal Health. He currently is Professor in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at UCVM, and United Nations University Chair in Infectious Diseases in a Changing Climate, with a joint appointment in the Dept. of Community Health Sciences of the Cumming School of Medicine. Dr. Barkema’s research program focuses on prevention and control of infectious diseases in livestock and humans, including antimicrobial resistance. He has published > 450 scientific manuscripts and book chapters, received > $84M in research funding, has lectured all over the world, and is the most highly cited researcher worldwide in cattle diseases. He leads the Antimicrobial Resistance – One Health Consortium and the Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Network (CAN-AMR-Net). Dr. Barkema is a fellow and board member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and he has received a large number of awards.