C. Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.

Professor, Biostatistics

Contact Information: hbrown@health.usf.edu	Specialization: - Biostatistical designs and analyses in prevention research and randomized field trials - Growth Curve Modeling - Missing Date Procedures - Psychiatric Epidemiology - Prevention of Conduct Disorder, violence and suicide
Degrees: B.A. Math & Chemistry, Vanderbilt University 1973 M.A. Chemistry, University of Chicago 1975 Ph.D. Statistics, University of Chicago 1981	Other Information: Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Publications and Presentations (PDF) Biographical Sketch Research Interests
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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 to evaluate the use of a gatekeeper training program to prevent suicide in middle and high schools.

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.

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