One Health is often framed as the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health. But what happens when we treat these as more than separate boxes to tick, and instead think about how lives and landscapes are shaped through relationships? In this talk, Dr Julianne Meisner introduces a relational approach to One Health, drawing on work with pastoralist communities and multispecies networks. She explores how methods from epidemiology and spatial modelling can help us understand health as something that emerges from interactions between systems - ecological, political, and social. This webinar offers new ways to think about how microbes, animals, people, and environments are linked, and how health research can reflect that complexity.


Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Dr Julianne Meisner is a veterinarian and epidemiologist, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She also holds an adjunct appointment in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Her research sits at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health, with a particular focus on livestock-keeping and pastoralist communities. Julianne uses methods from causal inference, spatial epidemiology, and network analysis to examine how political and social forces shape health in multispecies systems. She is especially interested in building approaches to One Health that reflect more than just biomedical outcomes, and her work has contributed to both theoretical and practical developments in the field. Julianne is a faculty fellow of the Marian and David Blazes Health Ecology programme and teaches courses on One Health and pandemic preparedness.