Ross Brownson, PhD

Ross Brownson, PhD

Primary Academic Title

Bernard Becker Professor of Public Health, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University

Research Interest

Etiologic factors responsible for the occurrence of lung cancer among nonsmokers; methods of effective intervention to promote physical activity and to control tobacco at the community level; assessment of the role of environmental and policy interventions to prevent cancer; methods of assessment and intervention for behavioral risk factors among high-risk populations (e.g. those of low income, racial/ethnic minorities).

Education

  • 1985: PhD, environmental health/epidemiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
  • 1999: MPH, quantitative methods, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Selected Research Publications

The Value and Impacts of Academic Public Health Departments.
  • Erwin PC, Grubaugh JH, Mazzucca-Ragan S, Brownson RC
  • Annu Rev Public Health 2023
Understanding Misimplementation in U.S. State Health Departments: An Agent-Based Model.
  • Kasman M, Hammond RA, Purcell R, [...] Brownson RC
  • Am J Prev Med 2023
Practices Among Local Public Health Agencies to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Qualitative Study.
  • Allen P, Parks RG, Kang SJ, [...] Brownson RC
  • J Public Health Manag Pract 2023
Leading the way: competencies of leadership to prevent mis-implementation of public health programs.
  • Moreland-Russell S, Farah Saliba L, Rodriguez Weno E, [...] Brownson RC
  • Health Educ Res 2022
Mapping the Lay of the Land: Using Interactive Network Analytic Tools for Collaboration in Rural Cancer Prevention and Control.
  • Carothers BJ, Allen P, Walsh-Bailey C, [...] Brownson RC
  • Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2022
Revisiting concepts of evidence in implementation science.
  • Brownson RC, Shelton RC, Geng EH, Glasgow RE
  • Implement Sci 2022
Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health.
  • Kwan BM, Brownson RC, Glasgow RE, Morrato EH , Luke DA
  • Annu Rev Public Health 2022
Program adaptation by health departments.
  • Farah Saliba L, Allen P, Mazzucca SL, [...] Brownson RC
  • Front Public Health 2022

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