Curriculum Vitae

Hello. Thanks for coming to check out my website. I am an infectious disease epidemiologist who uses spatial and temporal statistical models to better understand disease risk. While I really like working on vector-borne and zoonotic diseases (e.g., mosquitoes and West Nile virus disease, dengue, and canine heartworm; biting midges and blue tongue virus; fleas and plague; ticks and tularemia), I also work on cancers (e.g., Helicobacter pylori and stomach cancer) and broad/general epidemiologic questions. I work mostly on how environmental factors (like climate, weather, and land cover) influence the distribution and spread of disease.

Heidi E Brown PhD, MPH
Heidi E Brown PhD, MPH
heidibrown@arizona.edu
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Publications available on PubMed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/47792547/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Publications available on UA Profiles

https://profiles.arizona.edu/person/heidibrown

College of Public Health News and links

College Teams with Regional Partners to Promote Cooling Centers that Protect Against Dangerous Heat

UA Researchers Help Make Arizona a Climate-Ready State

Climate Change and Health Initiative

Affiliations 

UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

Center for Insect Science

School of Geography and Development

Institute of the Environment

Below are some recent publications that highlight the breadth of my interests, which I divided based on content area. That said, please check out my CV linked at the bottom of this page or My Bibliography hosted by the National Library of Medicine. I created a StoryMap version of my CV as well. 

Supporting Vector Control Efforts

  1. **Moore, T., Brown, H.E. Estimating Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) flight distance: Meta-data analysis. Submitted to J Medical Entomol In press, 4/27/2022.
  2. Brown, H.E., Keith L., **Madera-Garcia V., Taylor A., Ramirez N., Ogata, I. “Greening up for mosquitoes: A comparison of green stormwater infrastructure in a semi-arid region”. J Am Mosq Control Assoc In press, 2/24/2022
  3. Brown, H.E., Sedda, L., Sumner, C., Stefanakos, E., Rubino, I., Roach, M. Understanding Mosquito Surveillance Data for Analytic Efforts: a case study. J Medical Entomology, 2021, 58(4): 1619-1625.
  4. Lega, J., Brown, H.E., Barrera, R. “A 70 percent reduction in mosquito populations does not require removal of 70 percent of mosquitoes.” J Med Entomology. 2020, 57(5):1668-1670.

Understanding Infectious Causes of Cancer

  1. Monroy, F.P., Brown, H.E., Sanderson, P.R., Jarrin, G., Mbegbu, M., Kyman, S., Harris, R.H. Helicobacter pylori in Native Americans in Northern Arizona. Diseases. 2022. 10(19).
  2. Catalfamo, C.J., Brown, H.E., Dennis, L.K. “Evaluating the strength of association of human papillomavirus infection with penile carcinoma: a meta-analysis.” J Sexually Transmitted Infections. In Pres., 1/19/2022
  3. Harris, R.B., Brown, H.E., Begay, R., Sanderson, P., Chief, C. Monroy, F., Oren, E. Helicobacter pylori prevalence and associate risk factors in three rural Navajo communities of Northern Arizona: a cross-sectional study. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022, 19(2):797.

Preparedness

  1. Austhof, E., Brown, H.E., Flexibility and partnerships perceived as supportive of dual hazard response: COVID-19 and Heat Related Illness, Summer 2020.  J Clim Chang Health 2021. 4:100068.
  2. Austhof, E., Berisha, V., McMahan, B., Owen, G., Keith, L., Roach, M., Brown, H.E. “Participation and Engagement of Public Health Stakeholders in Climate and Health Adaptation” Atmosphere. 2020, 11(265): 1-12.
  3. Smiley-Evans, T., Shi, Z., Boots, M., Wenjun, L., Olival, K., Xiao, X., VandeWoude, S., Brown H.E., Chen, J.L., Civitello, D., Escobar, L.E., Grohn, Y.T., Li, H., Lips, K.R., Liu, Q., Liu J., Martinez Lopez, B., Shi., J., Shi., X., Xu, B., Lihong, Y.L., Zhu, Y., Getz, W.M. “Synergistic China-US Ecological Research is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness” EcoHealth, 2020, 17:160–173. 

Spatial Methods to Model Disease Spread

  1. **Bui, D.P., Oren, E., Brown, H.E., Harris, R.B., Knight, G.M., Grandjean, L. “Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru.” BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021, 21(275).
  2. Langston, M.E., Brown, H.E., Lynch, C.F., Roe, D.J., Dennis, L.K, “Ambient UVR is a risk factor for cutaneous melanoma in Iowa. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022. In Press, 1/28/2022.
  3. **Tang, X., Sedda, L., Brown, H.E., Predicting eastern equine encephalitis spread in North America: an ecological study. Current Res in Parasitol Vectorborne Disease. 2021.1:100064.
  4. Brown, H.E., Mu, W., Khan, M., Tsang, C., Liu, J., Tong, D. “Spatial scale in environmental risk mapping: A Valley fever case study” J Public Health Research. 2017, 6(2):886.
  5. Thompson, C., Saxberg, K., Lega, J., Tong, D., Brown, H.E. “A cumulative gravity model for inter-urban spatial interaction at different scales” Journal of Transport Geography. 2019, 79: Online. 

Other ‘Random’ stuff

  1. Brown, H.E. and Cox, J. “Toward an educated citizenry: benefits of instructional teams in undergraduate epidemiology.” Am J Epidemiology. 2021, 190(2):305-312.
  2. **Baum, C.E., Brown, H.E., Seifeldin, I., Ramadan, M.E., Lott, B., Nguyen, A., Hablas, A., “Regional variation of pancreatic cancer incidence in the Nile delta region of Egypt over a twelve-year period.” J Cancer Epi, 2020, 2020:6031708.
  3. **Cook, A. Harris, R., Brown, H.E., Bedrick, E. Geospatial Characteristics of Non-Motor Vehicle and Assault-Related Trauma Events in Greater Phoenix, Arizona. Injury Epidemiology. 2020, 7:34.
  4. Luz, P.M., Johnson, R.E., Brown, H.E. “Workplace availability, risk group and perceived barriers predictive of 2016-17 influenza vaccine uptake in the United States: a cross-sectional study” Vaccine. 2017, 35(43):5890-5896.

Collaborations and helpful links

Center for Insect Science, Post-doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching Program

Entomology and Insect Science, Graduate InterDisciplinary Program

ESRAC (Environment, Exposure Science Risk Assessment Center)