Prof. dr. Ana Maria de Roda Husman PhD has over 20 years of experience as a principal investigator in environmental infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in the One Health context. She advises policy makers at the Dutch government, the European committee, WHO, ECDC and EFSA on environmental surveillance for public health, and possible intervention measures. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. And has given many interviews for national and international media. She directs infectious disease research and policy advice at RIVM. She holds the chair of Global changes and environmentally transmitted infectious diseases at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences of Utrecht University. She has served as an expert for WHO since 2004 for the revision of the Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. Ana Maria is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water. She has set up the Dutch nationwide wastewater and environmental surveillance programs for AMR, COVID-19 and other health determinants.
