Justin Kastner

Dr. Kastner's research activities include an interdisciplinary mix of domains including food safety and international trade policy, the history of public health, veterinary history, environmental health, and the theory and practice of interdisciplinary scholarship. Recent publications include the following: Robin A.J. Nicholas and Justin J. Kastner, Lung Plague: Origins, Impact and Epidemiology of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI (2025), https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800627536.0000 Christopher A. Carter, Ellyn R. Mulcahy, Thomas Platt, and Justin Kastner, The health-related consequences of drought in the Po and Colorado River Basins,� Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 87, no. 10 (2025), pp.8-18, https://doi.org/10.70387/001c.140440 Justin Kastner and Robin Nicholas, Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: a tale of two countries, Veterinary History, Vol. 22, no. 1 (2024), pp. 12-37. Andrew Wefald and Justin Kastner (2023). Reflecting on the Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership (KARL) tour of United Arab Emirates, The Loop (K-State Staley School of Leadership Studies), webposted 31 January 2023, https://blogs.k-state.edu/leadership/2023/01/31/reflecting-on-the-kansas-agriculture-and-rural-leadership-karl-tour-of-united-arab-emirates/ Jayden McCall and Justin Kastner, with files from Anne Straily. Resourcefulness, resources, and the CCDM: An essential for practitioners of veterinary public health, One Health Newsletter, Vol. 14, no. 1 (2022), https://olathe.k-state.edu/research/one-health-newsletter/issues/vol14-iss1/CCDM.html Kate Lewis, Peter Maier, and Justin Kastner (2022). For the common good: a lesson in public health leadership from Eyam, The Loop (K-State Staley School of Leadership Studies), published 27 January 2002, https://blogs.k-state.edu/leadership/2022/01/27/for-the-common-good-a-lesson-in-public-health-leadership-from-eyam/ Justin Kastner and Kate Schoenberg, Veterinary Public Health as a Ratiocination, Veterinary Heritage, Vol. 44, no. 1 (2021), pp. 22-26. Justin Kastner, Megan Eppler, Valerie Jojola-Mount, Ellyn Mulcahy, Phutsadee Sanwisate, and Kate Schoenberg, Fighting the Spread of Disease With Words?�One Health Newsletter, Vol. 12, no. 2 (2020), https://olathe.k-state.edu/research/one-health-newsletter/issues/vol12-iss2/fighting_spread.html Justin Kastner and Josh Haynes, Physicians welcome a veterinarian to problem-solve on tuberculosis: One Health meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1888, One Health Newsletter, Vol. 11, no. 1 (2019), https://olathe.k-state.edu/research/one-health-newsletter/issues/vol11-iss1/edinburgh.html. Jason Ackleson, Sara Gragg, Justin Kastner, Ellyn Mulcahy, and Daniel Unruh. Chapter 12: Developing primary laws and secondary regulations for food safety: The case of FSMA and its attendant rules, In Master of Public Health Competencies: A Case Study Approach (Anthony Santella, Ed.), Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Learning, pp. 95-102 (2019). Jason Ackleson and Justin Kastner. The Frontier Field Trip: An Innovative Extracurricular Mentoring Model, The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2018), pp.195-98. Danny Unruh, Sara Gragg, Abbey Nutsch, Jason Ackleson, and Justin Kastner. Enhancing Food-System Resilience and Ensuring Consumer Confidence in the Aftermath of a Food-Supply Catastrophe, for the CIP Report, George Mason University Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security