Dr. C. Hendricks Brown holds the rank of Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Prior to that he was a Distinguished University Health Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South... Read more

Dr. C. Hendricks Brown holds the rank of Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Prior to that he was a Distinguished University Health Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 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 120 scientists and 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 NIMH and NIDA 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. 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 the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program being conducted in three states, 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 an evidence-based foster care program. He co-directs a NIDA funded study to examine variation in preventive effects within and across sites from the United States and the European Union. He also has funding from NIMH to evaluate the impact of antidepressants on suicide using multiple datasets.

He has chaired or co-chaired a number of international meetings related to synthesizing the evidence of prevention studies, has been a member of the recent National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine committee on prevention science, and serves on numerous federal panels, advisory boards, and editorial boards.

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