Pandemic Center

Dr. Meyer is a Lead Research Scientist at the Brown Pandemic Center. Her primary research interests include disaster and pandemic workforce development and training, building resilient health systems, and improving domestic and international outbreak response.

Her scholarly work includes several projects seeking to reduce the impacts that infectious disease outbreaks and other disasters have on populations. In 2019, she helped to organize a working group in Bangladesh in collaboration with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) to develop and refine a checklist to help improve health system resilience to outbreaks and natural hazards. She also supported development of the Global Health Security Index, which measures 195 countries’ health security capacities across 6 different indicators. Most recently, Dr. Meyer led the health department partnership building efforts at the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Meyer completed her PhD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, where she studied the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health service utilization in Baltimore and was the recipient of a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award. In 2016, she received an MPH with a concentration in infectious diseases from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also has a BA in biology from Carroll College and a BSN from Georgetown University. She is a former burn and trauma intensive care nurse.