Rate My Professor Mieghan Bruce

Mieghan Bruce is an Associate Professor in Veterinary Epidemiology at Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, affiliated with the Centre for Biosecurity and One Health in the Harry Butler Institute. She holds a BVMS, an MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology from the Royal Veterinary College in London (2010), for which she was awarded the Dogs Trust Award for Best MSc Veterinary Epidemiology Student, and a PhD. Her academic career includes prior affiliations with the Royal Veterinary College and the University of Liverpool. Bruce’s research focuses on integrating epidemiology and economics to better understand the impacts of diseases on animal populations, emphasizing One Health approaches to combat emerging infectious diseases and improve biosecurity.

Bruce has made significant contributions to animal health through her involvement in the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme, where she helps develop metrics such as the Animal Health Loss Envelope to quantify farm-level costs of disease. Her key publications include “Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases” (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024), “Scaling up One Health: A network analysis in Lao PDR” (One Health, 2024), “Prevalence and correlates of health care utilization for non-communicable diseases in South Asia” (2025), “A spatial autocorrelation method for Taenia solium risk mapping” (2023), “Single institution retrospective study evaluating the frequency of antimicrobial resistance genes in Clostridioides difficile” (BMC Veterinary Research, 2023), and “Patterns and determinants of healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditure for non-communicable diseases” (2024). In 2022, she received Murdoch University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award. Bruce leads training modules for the APCOVE programme, coordinates the ASEAN-Australia One Health Fellowship, supervises PhD students on topics including brucellosis and non-communicable diseases, and contributes to policy-relevant research on antimicrobial resistance and sustainable livestock production.