Speaker Announcement

We are delighted to announce Professor Chantal Reusken as a speaker for ISAC's upcoming COVID-19 Variants webinar on 12 April 2021.

Prof. Reusken will present on:

Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2. Experience from the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environment.

 

Chantal Reusken works as principal expert Virology at the Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb) of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven. Chantal has worked in the field of Virology since 1992 with a focus from the Public Health perspective since 2005. She holds a PhD in Virology from Leiden University.
She worked for five years as group lead Public Health Virology at Erasmus MC and before that for 9 years at CIb-RIVM, the last three years as head of the unit for rare and emerging viral diseases and laboratory response. She is coordinator of the ECDC-funded European expert laboratory network for emerging viral diseases “EVD-LabNet” and chairs the WHO COVID-19 reference lab at RIVM. Furthermore Chantal is regularly serving as expert on international committees and consultant groups of organizations such as ECDC, UNICEF and WHO.
Her activities focus on emerging viral disease laboratory preparedness and response and as such she works at the research-diagnostics interface. Her research has a focus on pathogens moving at the animal-human interphase like arboviruses, rodent-borne viruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses and emerging coronaviruses.