Faculty

Peter Rabinowitz

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Professor, Family Medicine
Professor, Global Health
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Dis.

206-616-0598

Education

MD Medicine, University of Washington, 1982
MPH School of Medicine, Yale University, 1995
BA Biology, Amherst College, 1978

Contact

206-616-0598

University of Washington
Box 357234
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Seattle, WA 98195

Bio

Peter Rabinowitz MD MPH directs the Center for One Health Research. The Project explores linkages between human, animal, and environmental health in a "One Health" paradigm, including: zoonotic infectious diseases at the human-animal interface, animals as "sentinels" of environmental health hazards, and clinical collaboration between human health care providers and veterinarians in a species-spanning approach. A goal of the Project is to serve as an incubator and organizer of research, training, and clinical activities at the University of Washington related to the human-animal-ecosystem interface.

Dr. Rabinowitz also directs the Canary Database, an online resource for evidence about animals as sentinels of environmental health threats from both toxic and infectious hazards. He has been a visiting scientist at the Global Influenza Program of the WHO, and also in the Animal Health Division of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) where he researched zoonotic diseases. He is the co-editor, with Lisa Conti DVM, MPH, of the clinical manual Human Animal Medicine: Zoonoses, Toxicants and other Shared Health Risks. (Elsevier 2010) He is co-director, with Malika Kachani DVM, PhD, of the Stone Mountain Working Group on One Health Proof of Concept Research.

Dr. Rabinowitz completed a Family Medicine residency through the University of California San Francisco (Salinas Program). He has also completed fellowships in General Preventive Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, where he served as Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of Electives for the School of Medicine.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Use of a pathogen X tabletop exercise to assess the operational response preparedness of an emerging infectious diseases research network.
(2025)
Front Public Health 13(): 1551996
Lee R, Hemingway-Foday J, Batsuli N, Wagner LD, Macoubray A, Garry RF, Johnson CK, Hanley KA, Vasilakis N, Mboup S, Li H, Sánchez CA, Rabinowitz PM, Breiman RF, Vandergrift N, Earley EJ, Bouton-Verville H, Beaubien EC, Megan Davidson E, Van Vliet G, Woodson S, Moody MA, Sempowski GD, Reithinger R
The Imperative to Incorporate Climate Change Competencies into Occupational and Environmental Medicine Training to Safeguard Worker Health.
(2025 Feb 18)
J Occup Environ Med
Khan A, Berenji M, Cloeren M, Goldman R, Wheat S, Ogunseitan O, Ayoub S, Rabinowitz P, Chekuri B, Solomon G
Travel-associated international spread of Oropouche virus beyond the Amazon.
(2025 Mar 30)
J Travel Med 32(3):
de Melo Iani FC, Pereira FM, de Oliveira EC, Rodrigues JTN, Machado MH, Fonseca V, Adelino TER, Guimarães NR, Tomé LMR, Gómez MKA, Nardy VB, Ribeiro AA, Rosewell A, Ferreira ÁGA, Silva de Mello ALE, Fernandes BMM, de Albuquerque CFC, Dos Santos Pereira D, Pimentel EC, Lima FGM, Silva FVM, de Carvalho Pereira G, Tegally H, Almeida JDPC, Moreno KMF, Vasconcelos KR, Santos LC, Silva LCM, Frutuoso LCV, Lamounier LO, Costa MA, de Oliveira MS, Dos Anjos MPD, Ciccozzi M, Lima MT, Pereira MA, Rocha MLC, de Souza da Silva PE, Rabinowitz PM, de Almeida PS, Lessells R, Gazzinelli RT, da Cunha RV, Gonçalves S, Dos Santos SCF, de Alcântara Belettini SA, Pedroso SHSP, Araújo SIR, da Silva SF, Croda J, Maciel E, Van Voorhis W, Martin DP, Holmes EC, de Oliveira T, Lourenço J, Alcantara LCJ, Giovanetti M
Developing a one health data integration framework focused on real-time pathogen surveillance and applied genomic epidemiology.
(2025 Feb 20)
One Health Outlook 7(1): 9
Oltean HN, Lipton B, Black A, Snekvik K, Haman K, Buswell M, Baines AE, Rabinowitz PM, Russell SL, Shadomy S, Ghai RR, Rekant S, Lindquist S, Baseman JG
Mapping hotspots of zoonotic pathogen emergence: an integrated model-based and participatory-based approach.
(2025 Jan)
Lancet Planet Health 9(1): e14-e22
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 P, Lankester F
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