Sabine Hutter, DVM MSc

Sabine Hutter graduated from veterinary school in Vienna, Austria, in 2001. She gained her first working experience in the field in a veterinary clinic in Costa Rica, before she started work as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom.

She then complemented her education by doing a master's in Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London. The main focus of this master's degree was on epidemiology, study design, risk analysis, modelling, statistics, and animal health economics.

Subsequently she moved to Switzerland, completing a one-year internship at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office in Bern. The main focus there was on zoonoses, and Sabine contributed by designing and implementing various studies in the field of food safety, as well as designing the draft for a Ph.D. project on risk based sampling. Furthermore, she gained insight into the daily works of a government office.

Sabine joined SAFOSO in the beginning of 2005. Two of her main projects were BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) risk assessments in collaboration with the Animal Health Services in two South American countries, and she participated also in projects on Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease (recently in an EFSA Working Group).

In Ferbuary of 2007 Sabine has successfully completed an OIE Training Seminar on the use of the "Performance, Vision and Strategy" (PVS) tool for the evaluation of Veterinary Services, and has already been sent on an evaluation mission in Central America.

For personal reasons Sabine left Switzerland in April 2007 to live in Costa Rica, but she will still be available for future projects with SAFOSO.