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broiler breeders and laying hens for the EU, national government and
private companies. She has published
55 scientific papers, in addition
to various book chapters, conference papers and reports, and has been
invited speaker at various international conferences on animal welfare.
Joy Mench (
[email protected])
Joy Mench is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis
(UCD). She received her doctorate in Ethology at the University of Sussex
in the UK, carried out postdoctoral research at Cornell University, and
was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for
10 years
before moving to UCD in
1995. Her area of emphasis is the behaviour
and welfare of captive and managed animals, with a particular focus
on poultry. She has published hundreds of papers, book chapters and
books on these topics. At UCD, she taught classes on animal welfare, ani
mal ethics, and professional ethics. She consults extensively on animal
welfare for a range of stakeholders, including retailers, farmers, trade
groups, government agencies, and animal welfare organizations. She
was recently named a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association and the
International Society for Applied Ethology.
Lotta Berg (
[email protected])
Lotta (Charlotte) Berg is a professor in Animal Environment and
Health at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and started
her research career at the same university where she received a doc
torate based on a thesis focusing on the epidemiology and prevention
of management-related diseases of welfare relevance in broilers. She
has since been working mainly with poultry and other farm animals,
but also with other species. She is interested in the interface between
wildlife and farmed animals, including welfare and zoonotic disease
aspects (One Health). She has worked for the Swedish government,
writing and updating animal welfare legislation nationally and inter
nationally and supporting the operational control authorities in their
animal welfare work. She holds a Diplomate Certificate of the European