Julie Funk is the Online Master of Science in Food Safety Program Director and an Associate Professor of pre-harvest food safety in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine. She received her DVM from Michigan State University after which she spent two years as an associate in a predominantly swine practice in Wolcott, Indiana. Following practice, she completed a Residency/Masters Program at the University of Illinois in Population Medicine and a PhD from North Carolina State University in Comparative Biomedical Sciences that had an epidemiology focus. Prior to joining Michigan State University, she was an Associate Professor of food safety epidemiology in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University. Dr. Funk's research interests include the pre-harvest epidemiology of foodborne pathogens in food animals as well as antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in food animal populations.
