Julianne Meisner, BVM&S, PhD, MS
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
Mentorship
Not available to mentor new students.
DEOHS Students Mentored
Research
Zoonotic disease transmission (especially tuberculosis, brucellosis and trypanosomiasis); environmental health effects of livestock-keeping; application of causal inference methods and Bayesian hierarchical models to One Health research; methods for dealing with high-dimensional animal contact data; extension of social network analysis to human-animal networks for targeted surveillance of spillover events; hypothesis-driven approaches to the emergence of potential pandemic threats; use of GIS technology to validate questionnaire data on human-animal contact; land tenure as a public health issue; occupational health of animal workers.
Publications
Selected publications
- Optimizing HIV retesting during pregnancy and postpartum in four countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis
- Cost-effectiveness of dual maternal HIV and syphilis testing strategies in high and low HIV prevalence countries: a modelling study
- Soil and climactic predictors of canine coccidioidomycosis seroprevalence in Washington State: An ecological cross-sectional study
- The curse of dimensionality: animal-related risk factors for pediatric diarrhea in western Kenya, and methods for dealing with a large number of predictors.
- A mathematical model for evaluating the role of trypanocide treatment of cattle in the epidemiology and control of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness in Uganda.
Additional Information
Julianne Meisner's research website