Research

Background

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, and the Director of the Center for One Health Research. I graduated from the University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies with my BVM&S (DVM equivalent) in 2011, and received my MS (2017) and PhD (2021) in Epidemiology from the University of Washington.

My research focuses on human health at the human-animal interface, in particular the effect of livestock exposure on infectious disease risk to humans, and the influence of macrosocial forces on interspecies disease transmission. I have a strong interest in epidemiologic methods for inferring cause from observational studies, spatial epidemiology including experience with R-INLA, survey statistics, and mathematical modeling.

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Publications

My NCBI bibliography

  1. Meisner J, Curtis K, Graham T, Rabinowitz P. Occupational practices and hazards of rural livestock keepers in Uganda: a Cross-Sectional Study. East African Health Research Journal 2017; 2(1): 67-77.
  2. Meisner J, Vora M, Fuller M, Phipps A, Rabinowitz P. Maternal Veterinary Occupation and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Washington State, 1992-2014: a Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2018; 75: 359-368
  3. Meisner J, Curtis, K, Graham T, Apamaku M, Manhart L, Rabinowitz, P. Cattle-associated risk factors for human tuberculosis in rural livestock keeping communities, Uganda. Zoonoses and Public Health 2018; 66(1): 73-82.
  4. Meisner J, Barnabas R, Rabinowitz P. 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. Parasite Epidemiology and Control 2019; 5: e00106.
  5. Meisner J, Mooney, S, Rabinowitz P. The curse of dimensionality: animal-related risk factors for pediatric diarrhea in western Kenya, and methods for dealing with a large number of predictors. PLoS ONE 2019; 14(4): e0215982.
  6. Meisner J, Clifford W, Wohrle R, Kangiser D, Rabinowitz P. Soil and climactic predictors of canine coccidioidomycosis seroprevalence in Washington State: an ecological cross-sectional study. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 2019; 66(5): 2134-2142.
  7. Rodriguez PJ, Roberts DA, Meisner J, Sharma M, Owiredu MN, Gomez B, de Mello M, Bobrik A, Vodianyk A, Storey A, Githuka G, Chidarikire T, Barnabas R, Barr-Dichiara M, Jamil MS, Baggaley R, Johnson C, Taylor MM, Drake A. Cost-effectiveness of dual maternal HIV and syphilis testing strategies in high and low HIV prevalence countries. Lancet Global Health 2021; 9(1): E61-E71.
  8. Meisner J, Roberts DA, Rodriguez P, Sharma M, Owiredu MN, Gomez B, de Mello MB, Bobrik A, Vodianyk A, Storey A, Githuka G, Chidarikire T, Barnabas R, Farid S, Essajee S, Jamil MS, Baggaley R, Johnson C, Drake A. Optimizing HIV retesting during pregnancy and postpartum in four countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis. JIAS 2021; 24(4): e25686.
  9. Meisner J, Munayco C, Garcia P, Carcamo C, Morin C, Pigott DM, Rabinowitz PM. A novel approach to modeling epidemic vulnerability, applied to Aedes aegypti-vectored diseases in Peru. BMC Infectious Diseases 2021; 21(1):846.
  10. Hernandez J, Meisner J, Bardosh K, Rabinowitz PM. Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples. Lancet Planetary Health 2022; 6:e382.
  11. Hernandez J, Meisner J, Jacobs LA, Rabinowitz PM. Re-Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Discourse. PLOS Climate 2022; 1(5): e0000032.
  12. Dostal T, Meisner J, Munayco C, Garcia P, Carcamo C, Perez Lu JE, Morin C, Frisbie LA, Rabinowitz PM. The effect of weather and climate on dengue outbreak risk in Peru, 2000-2018: a time-series analysis. PLoS NTD 2022; 16(6): e0010479.
  13. Meisner J, Kato A, Lemerani M, Miaka EM, Taban AI, Wakefield J, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Pigott D, Mayer JD, Rabinowitz PM. The effect of livestock density on Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T.b. rhodesiense: a causal-inference based approach. PLOS NTD 2022; 16(8): e0010155.
  14. Meisner J, Kato A, Lemerani M, Miaka EM, Taban AI, Wakefield J, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Pigott D, Mayer JD, Rabinowitz PM. Estimating the distribution of livestock in space and time: a time-series contribution to livestock density mapping. Nature Scientific Reports 2022; 12:13310.
  15. Tin A, Kuehl K, Terry A, Meisner J, Ramirez V, Tabor E, Rabinowitz P. A One Health Clinic for People Experiencing Homelessness and their Animals: Treating the Human-Animal Unit. Annals of Family Medicine 2022; 20(5).
  16. Meisner J, Baszler TV, Kuehl KE, Ramirez V, Baines A, Frisbie LA, Lofgren ET, DeAvila DM, Wolking RM, Bradway DS, Wilson H, Lipton B, Kawakami V, Rabinowitz PM. Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to pets in Washington and Idaho: burden and risk factors. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2022;28(12):2425-2434.
  17. Meisner J, Kato A, Lemerani M, Miaka EM, Taban AI, Wakefield J, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Pigott D, Mayer JD, Lorton C, Rabinowitz PM. Does a One Health approach to human African trypanosomiasis control hasten elimination? A stochastic compartmental modeling approach. Acta Tropica. 2023 Apr;240:106804. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106804. PMID: 36682395; PMCID: PMC9992224.
  18. Meisner J, Kato A, Lemerani M, Miaka EM, Taban AI, Wakefield J, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Pigott D, Mayer JD, Rabinowitz PM. Livestock, pathogens, vectors, and their environment: a causal inference-based approach to estimating the pathway-specific effect of livestock on human African trypanosomiasis risk. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023; 3(11):e002543. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002543. PMID: 37967087; PMCID: PMC10651035.
  19. Meisner J, McLeland-Wieser H, Traylor E, Hermesh B, Berg T, Roess A, Van Patter L, Rosenthal A, Davidovitch N, Rabinowitz P. Relational One Health: A more-than-biomedical framework for more-than-human health, and lessons learned from Brazil, Ethiopia, and Israel. One Health. 2024; 18:100676.
  20. Kelly J, Ramirez V, Meisner J. Evaluation of a One Health clinic: Enhancing access to healthcare and housing for young adults experiencing homelessness with animals. CABI One Health. 2024;3:1.
  21. Pollowitz M, Allick C, Campbell KB, Kamakahiolani Ellison NL, Perez-Aguilar G, Vera M, Ramirez V, Nadal D, Meisner J. One Health, many perspectives: Exploring Indigenous and western epistemologies. CABI One Health. 2024;3:1.
  22. Meisner J, Baines A, Ngere I, Garcia PJ, Sa-Nguansilp C, Nguyen N, Niang C, Bardosh K, Nguyen T, Fenelon H, Norris M, Mitchell S, Munayco CV, Janzing N, Dragovich R, Traylor E, Li T, Le H, Suarez A, Sanad Y, Leader BT, Wasserheit JN, Lofgren E, Clancey E, Benzekri NA, Shields L, Rabiner C, Seifert S, Rabinowitz PM, Lankester F. Mapping hotspots of zoonotic pathogen emergence: an integrated model- and participatory-based approach. Lancet Planetary Health. 2025;9(1): E14-E22. *Editor’s pick*
  23. Berg T, Acevedo Nieto E, Moura S, Souza M, Lucio ZM, e Silva G, Meisner J. Socio-ecological conflict in the Quilombola territory: land titling and ecosystem health. Sustainability Science. 2025;20:903-918.
  24. Coomes D, Meisner J, Roberts DA, Rodriguez P, Owiredu MN, Sharma M, Bobrick A, Vodianyk A, Williams A, Githuka G, Chidarikire T, Barnabas R, Farid S, Essajee S, Jamil MS, Baggaley R, Johnson C, Drake AL. Cost-effectiveness of maternal HIV retesting during pregnancy and postpartum among key populations. JAIDS. 2025;100(1):6-11.
  25. Rejto R, Ramirez V, Fenelon H, Xie M, Kuehl K, Terry A, Tin A, Tabor E, Schneier Kate, Nee A, Richer A, Rabinowitz P, Meisner J. The One Health Clinic: Care for young adults and companion animals experiencing homelessness. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2025;16.
  26. Meisner J, Bodha B, Stothard JR, Juhasz A, Makaula P, Musaya J, Ngere I, Gachohi J, Njenga MK, Oketch D, Muriuki W, Osoro E. Current approaches in livestock geotagging: assessing available technologies and applications to public health research. PLoS Global Public Health. 2025;5(8): e0002960.
  27. Palazza J, Olusola AO, Akpan SN, Testimony JO, Ayotunde ES, Chinedu AU, Nwofoke C, Okoro SJ, Adelabu A, Oyejide NE, Adeleye RF, Otuh PI, Heeney JL, Rabinowitz P, Happi C, Meisner J,* Happi A* [*co-senior authors] Ecological Determinants and Spatial Clustering of Lassa Virus in Small Mammal Hosts in Nigeria. Emerging Infectious Disease [Submitted]
  28. McLeland-Wieser H, Baker M, Meisner J, Rabinowitz P. Use of a risk matrix to assess bovine exposure and allergy in dairy workers. Journal of Agromedicine [Submitted].
  29. Rejto N, Meisner J, Ramirez V, Rabinowitz P. Dairy worker infection prevention knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors. Journal of Agromedicine [Submitted]
  30. Baines A, Chaligava T, Beruashvili M, Menteshashvili I, Alam MGS, Levine R, Gilvydis J, Lewis N, Rabinowitz P, Meisner J. Strengthening avian influenza surveillance at high-risk interfaces: farm biosecurity and wild bird surveillance in the country of Georgia. Epidemiology & Infection [Submitted]

 

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