Rate My Professor Jessica Meiklejohn

Jessica Meiklejohn is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Public Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, at the University of Otago. She holds a BSc, Diploma in Public Health (DPH), and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Otago. Her academic and research contributions focus on epidemiology and public health, particularly alcohol-related studies in New Zealand.

Meiklejohn's key publications from 2012 include: Meiklejohn J, Connor J, Kypri K. One in three New Zealand drinkers reports being harmed by their own drinking in the past year. New Zealand Medical Journal 125(1360). This work details self-reported harms from personal alcohol consumption based on survey data. Meiklejohn J, Connor J, Kypri K. The effect of low survey response rates on estimates of alcohol consumption in a general population survey. PLoS ONE 7(4):e35527. The study assesses biases introduced by low response rates in alcohol consumption surveys. Meiklejohn J, Connor JL, Kypri K. Drinking concordance and relationship satisfaction in New Zealand couples. Alcohol & Alcoholism 47(5):606-611. This paper investigates how similarity in drinking patterns between partners relates to relationship satisfaction. In 2010, she completed her MPH thesis, Drinking patterns, drinking in partnerships and informal social control.

Her research received funding from an Otago University Research Grant, Dunedin School of Medicine start-up award, Bequest Funds, and the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand; she also held a scholarship from the Alcohol Advisory Council. As a Teaching Fellow, Meiklejohn contributes to undergraduate courses including PUBH192 Foundations of Epidemiology and POPH192 Population Health, working with teaching staff such as Janine Tansley, Carly Collins, and others, with specialist guest lecturers. The POPH192 team, including Meiklejohn, was awarded recognition for excellence in undergraduate public health leadership teaching. Contact: +64 3 479 5610.