Wilma Steeneveld

Wilma Steeneveld is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences. She specializes in Animal Health Economics, integrating veterinary science, epidemiology, and economics to analyze the impacts of animal diseases and health interventions.

• Focuses on dairy cattle, pigs, and poultry
• Develops decision-support tools for farmers and veterinarians
• Advances multidimensional analysis (economic, environmental, welfare, public health)

Her research includes the DECIDE project, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program, which creates data-driven tools for managing contagious diseases in livestock. She also contributed to standardized animal welfare indicators for BuRO (NVWA), collaborating with stakeholders to define metrics for dairy cows, sheep, and goats.