Dr. C.
Hendricks Brown is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida.
He also holds adjunct professor positions in the Department
of Biostatistics and the Department of Mental Health at
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Also
he is a Senior Research Scholar at the American Institutes
for Research and a Collaborating Senior Scientist at the
Oregon Center for Research to Practice.
Since 1985 he has received support from
the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and more
recently from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
to develop statistical methods for the design and analysis
of preventive and early intervention field trials. As director
of the Prevention Science and Methodology Group (PSMG),
Brown leads a national network of methodologists who are
working on the design of preventive field trials and their
analysis, particularly with advanced techniques for growth
analysis and for missing data. PSMG works closely with all
the NIMH funded Prevention Research Centers and collaborates
on the design and analysis of many of the federally funded
randomized trials in prevention of mental disorders and
drug abuse. He is also the co-director of the multi-site
Center for Integrating Education and Prevention in Schools,
which is now funded by NIDA to conduct a third large-scale
randomized field trial in Baltimore. More recently, his
work has focused on the prevention of serious mental disorders
such as schizophrenia, and also the prevention of suicide.
He now co-directs a randomized trial of 32 schools to evaluate
the use of a gatekeeper training program to prevent suicide
in middle and high schools, a randomized trial of a first-grade
classroom behavior and curriculum intervention to prevent
drug abuse, and a randomized trial of 40 counties in California
to test the dissemination of a foster care program.
At the University of Illinois at Chicago
Center for Health Statistics, Brown works closely with the
director Robert Gibbons on examining the role that antidepressants
have on suicidality in youth. He also has methodologic interests
in causal inference, growth models, missing data, and random
effects modeling.
Brown has also pursued his interest in
the construction of a registry of preventive trials so that
scientific information about an intervention’s success,
based on the quality of its design and strength of research
findings, can be accessed just as easily as information
about the cost, availability of training, and implementation.
This project covers the prevention of substance abuse, delinquency
and crime, mental health problems, suicide, child maltreatment,
HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. He has
chaired or co-chaired a number of international meetings
related to this project.
He serves on numerous federal panels,
advisory boards, and editorial boards. |
