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Julianne Meisner, BVM&S, PhD, MS

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: meisnerj@uw.edu
Expertise: Safe Workplaces, Agricultural health and safety, Environmental Health, Infectious diseases, Occupational Health, One Health

About

Dr. Julianne Meisner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) and an Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Global Health. A veterinarian with a PhD in Epidemiology, Dr. Meisner’s research interests focus on the intersection of human, animal and environmental health. 

Dr. Meisner’s current research focuses on the human and environmental health implications of livestock-keeping, and the application of methods drawn from causal inference and spatial epidemiology to tackle methodological challenges unique to One Health studies. She is also interested in political and social forces that influence multispecies collectives. 

She is currently an active co-investigator in the UW Center for One Health Research (part of DEOHS) and in the Department of Global Health’s I-TECH. 

Education

  • BVM&S, University of Edinburgh
  • PhD, University of Washington
  • MS, University of Washington

Affiliations

Center for One Health Research

Mentorship

Not available to mentor new students. 

DEOHS Students Mentored

A One Health approach to Land Tenure and Routes of Zoonotic Disease Exposure for Pastoralists in Marsabit County, Kenya
A. Mallory Thomas | MS Thesis | 2024 | View

Indigenous One Health: Connecting Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science
Michelle Pollowitz | MS Thesis | 2023 | View

Additional Information

Julianne Meisner's research website

Media Mentions

Offering health care for pets helps their humans too
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Peter Rabinowitz, Julianne Meisner | View
PhD student earns prestigious Tillman Scholar award
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Julianne Meisner | View
DEOHS targets emerging health threats with new population health awards
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Nicole Errett, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Coralynn Sack, June T. Spector, Julianne Meisner, Peter Rabinowitz | View
How the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could become humanity’s problem
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Peter Rabinowitz, Julianne Meisner | View
Planetary health projects win population health grants
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Peter Rabinowitz, Julianne Meisner, Cory Morin | View
How to ‘live with’ COVID: Epidemiologists share how they’re approaching living with the virus
February 11, 2022 | New York Times | Featured: Julianne Meisner | View
Tracing a lifetime of exposures
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Judit Marsillach, Christopher D. Simpson, Elaine M. Faustman, Joel D. Kaufman, Clement Furlong, Lucio G. Costa, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Esther Min, Emily Hovis, Julianne Meisner, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Michael G. Yost | View