Animal Health and Welfare

The Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) provides scientific advice on all aspects of animal diseases and animal welfare. Its work chiefly concerns food producing animals, including fish.

AHAW Panel Members are scientists from across Europe with expertise in:

• Risk assessment, quantitative risk assessment, modelling
• Microbiology and pathology (applied to infectious diseases of food-producing animals, including aquatic animals)
• Epidemiology
• Animal welfare
• Animal production (husbandry, housing and management, animal transport and stunning and killing of animals)

Panel Members

AHAW Panel Members, 2018-2021

Chair: Nielsen, Søren Saxmose
Vice-Chair: Michel, Virginie; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel
Member: Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Canali, Elisabetta (as of December 2020); Drewe, Julian Ashley; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Herskin, Mette (as of September 2020); Padalino, Barbara (as of December 2020); Pasquali, Paolo (as of September 2020); Roberts, Helen Clare; Sihvonen, Liisa Helena; Spoolder, Hans; Stahl, Karl; Velarde Calvo, Antonio (as of September 2019); Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph

View Declarations of Interests and CVs.

Previous Panel Members

2015-2018

Chair: Simon More
Vice-Chair: Hans-Hermann Thulke
Member: Dominique Joseph Bicout; Andrew Butterworth; Anette Bøtner; Paolo Calistri; Klaus Depner; Sandra Edwards; Bruno Garin-Bastuji; Margaret Good; Christian Gortazar Schmidt; Virginie Michel, Vice-Chair Miguel Ángel Miranda Chueca; Søren Saxmose Nielsen; Mohan Raj; Liisa Helena Sihvonen; Hans Spoolder; Jan Arend Stegeman; Antonio Velarde; Preben Willeberg; Christoph Winckler

2012-2015

Chair: Simon More
Vice-Chair: Hans-Hermann Thulke
Member: Edit Authie; Charlotte Berg; Anette Bøtner; Howard Browman; Ilaria Capua (until July 2014); Aline De Koijer; Klaus Depner; Mariano Domingo; Christian Ducrot (as of October 2014); Sandra Edwards; Christine Fourichon; Frank Koenen; Mohan Raj; Liisa Sihvonen; Hans Spoolder; Jan Arend Stegeman; Antonio Velarde; Ivar Vågsholm; Preben Willeberg; Stéphan Zientara (until July 2014)

2009-2012

Chair: Philippe Vannier
Vice-Chair: Jörg Hartung; James Michael Sharp
Member: Anette Botner; Donald Broom; Markus Doherr; Mariano Domingo; Linda Keeling; Frank Koenen; Simon More; David B. Morton; Pascal Oltenacu; Albert Osterhaus (until July 2011); Fulvio Salati; Mo Salman; Moez Sanaa; Jan Arend Stegeman; Endre Szucs; Hans-Hermann Thulke; Anthony John Francis Webster; Martin Wierup

The Declarations of Interests and CVs of previous Panel members are available upon interestmanagement [at] efsa.europa.eu (request).

Networks

Risk assessment in animal health and welfare

EFSA networks with Member States to build a mutual understanding of risk assessment principles in the area of animal health and welfare, to promote harmonisation of animal health and welfare risk assessment practices and methodologies and to reduce the duplication of activities by identifying and sharing current and upcoming priorities.

• Terms of reference
• List of members
• Meetings

Subgroup meetings

• Echinococcus multilocularis
• National Contact Points for scientific support under Art 20, Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009