Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH, is a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, family medicine, global health and medicine at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He is the director of the UW Center for One Health Research, which explores connections between the health of humans, nonhuman animals and the changing environment they share.
Rabinowitz’s research and clinical focus is on infectious diseases transmitted between humans and animals (zoonotic diseases), as well as vector-borne diseases transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes and other insects.
Rabinowitz is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He completed a family medicine residency through the University of California, San Francisco, and fellowships in general preventive medicine and occupational and environmental medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. He has been a visiting scientist at the World Health Organization Global Influenza Program, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the Stanford School of Medicine Center for Innovation in Global Health.
Rabinowitz has published more than 120 research articles and 20 book chapters on zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, One Health and occupational medicine. He is the co-editor of the textbook Human-Animal Medicine (Elsevier, 2010).
Dr. Rabinowitz enjoys kayaking, running, playing banjo, and bird watching.
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Yale University School of Medicine
Fellowship, 1998, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Yale University School of Medicine
Fellowship, 1995, Preventive Medicine
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Yale University School of Medicine
Master Public Health, 1995
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Natividad Medical Center
Residency, 1984, Family Medicine
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Natividad Medical Center
Internship, 1983, Family Medicine
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Univ. of Washington, School of Medicine
Medical education, 1982
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UW - Dept. of Occupational & Enviro. Medicine
Teaching Appointment, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Board Certifications
- Occupational Medicine, 2002, American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Preventive Medicine, 1999, American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Family Medicine, 1985, American Board of Family Medicine