Joke van der Giessen elected President of the International Commission on Trichinellosis (ICT)

maandag 2 november 2015 14:00

Dr Joke van der Giessen is the first woman to be elected President of the International Commission on Trichinellosis (ICT). Her term of office is for five years (2015 to 2019). Joke van der Giessen is a veterinary microbiologist and parasitologist in the RIVM Center for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology. She is head of the National Reference Laboratory for Foodborne Parasites at RIVM. Trichinellosis or trichinosis is a notifiable disease in humans and animals that needs to be controlled in the animal population.