Caring for animals
and creating trust.
The Veterinary and Consumer Affairs team helps you successfully meet the demands of a changing world.

Building partnerships that help bridge the gap between farm and table and keep pets healthy members of the family.

Collaborating to advance animal health and welfare, increase understanding of modern animal agricultural practices and support the veterinary profession.

Engaging to understand consumer trends, advocate for agriculture and build trust through transparency.
Animal Welfare

Consumer & Retail

Sustainability

Veterinary & Academic Affairs


Veterinary Wellbeing Second Comprehensive Study Released
Results show attitudes toward mental health in the veterinary field are improving, but there’s still work to do regarding treatment. Find these results, as well as data on job satisfaction, compensation, burnout, substance use disorder, cyberbullying and suicide in this report.
Recent News
Ensuring Animal Welfare in Our Shelters
Unconditional care and compassion are foundational to shelter welfare. Learn how animal health and welfare are addressed in shelters, the impact COVID-19 has had on the way they’ve had to do things and what shelter welfare may look like in a post-pandemic society. You can also listen to the podcast featuring Dr. Angela Baysinger and her guest, Dr. Jyothi Robertson, Principal JVR Shelter Strategies.


We believe we can learn a lot about unconditional trust, patience, love and forgiveness from the animals we help every day.
Merck Animal Health Veterinary & Consumer Affairs
Committed to providing our customers and food chain partners with animal health solutions and industry-leading perspectives on animal wellbeing, consumer trends and sustainability.
We work to make the animal’s life
the best that it can be.

Judson Vasconcelos
DVM, MS, PhDHead, Veterinary and Consumer Affairs
Judson.Vasconcelos@merck.com
Our team collaborates with customers and stakeholders to advance animal health and welfare and increase consumer trust in modern animal agriculture practices. Bringing people together from different parts of the food value chain gives us opportunities to discuss shared challenges and solutions that ultimately help us navigate a changing world and evolving consumer trends. As a veterinarian and animal scientist, I’m passionate about Merck Animal Health’s support of the veterinary profession through our wellbeing study, student and scholarship initiatives that endeavor to improve the profession.

Jane Dukes
Sr. Account Manager, Consumer AffairsJane.Dukes@merck.com
I’ve devoted my career to promoting and protecting consumer brands, and I’m passionate about understanding the consumer perspective. I work with customers and food chain stakeholders to build understanding of marketplace trends and trust in modern animal agriculture practices. Through partnerships that help keep pets healthy members of the family and bridge the gap between farm and table, our team offers educational tools, training and resources to promote consumer trust through transparent communication and help farmers and veterinarians share their stories to advocate for agriculture.

Angela Baysinger
DVM, MSAnimal Welfare Lead, North America
Angela.Baysinger@merck.com
Animal welfare is my passion and my role as the animal welfare lead for Merck Animal Health North America is my dream job. I help incorporate animal welfare into product support trials and customer on-farm/in-clinic studies and provide training and support for animal welfare evaluations for both food and companion animals. My leading initiative is the annual Advancing Animal Welfare Together Symposium our team hosts that brings food chain leaders together from farm to table for a transparent dialogue about improving animal welfare.

Jessica Lynn Meisinger
PhDSr. Account Manager, Sustainability
Jessica.Meisinger@merck.com
I am passionate about sustainability and thrilled to be working with Merck Animal Health on this endeavor. From promoting research around the benefits of preventative medicine in animal agriculture to raising food sustainably, I lead our sustainability efforts and support stakeholders in special projects including blockchain initiatives. As a mom and pet parent, I understand the need for a safe, sustainable food supply and love helping people in the retail/restaurant industries learn more about farmers and the “why” behind choices they make for their animals.