Jwee Chiek
Norwegian Veterinary Institute, NORWAY
Biography
Jwee Chiek Er is a veterinary epidemiologist and a research scientist at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. After graduating with BVSc at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1989, he worked as a public health inspector at slaughterhouses for pigs and poultry in Singapore for 13 years. He obtained a Master in Preventative Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) at UC Davis in 2000 and began his career as an epidemiologist. With the pandemic H1N1 virus emerging in the world and infecting the pigs in Norway for the first time for any influenza strain, he spent 5 five years conducting epidemiological research of this new influenza strain in Norwegian pigs and investigated production impact it has on pig production. His publications are listed as above. He received his Doctorate in Philosophy for his research in 2016 at the University of Life Sciences in Oslo