Title: C. Hendricks Brown to receive Rema Lapouse Award for 2004
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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology
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C. Hendricks Brown, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the College of Public Health of the University of South Florida, is to receive the 2004 APHA Rema Lapouse Award. Granted by the Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology Sections, the Rema Lapouse award is presented annually to an outstanding scientist in the field of psychiatric epidemiology. This year’s award is to be presented at a special session of the APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Brown is to deliver a special lecture at a session in his honor.
Dr. Brown received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 1981. Prior to moving to the University of South Florida in 1992, he was Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Since 1995, he has been a NIMH and NIDA funded Independent Scientist devoting 80 percent of his time to research for the design and analysis of preventive trials in mental health. A major responsibility has been directing the Prevention Science and Methodology Group, which cosponsors methodology workshops at funded prevention research centers across the country. Brown has also been Principal Investigator of NIMH and CDC funded research in methodology for population-based approaches to prevent suicide and a NIDA project for the prevention of early drug abuse risk in schools.
Dr Brown has specialized in designing analytic methods to tackle problems of selection bias and differential attrition in a series of prevention trials merging biostatistical (exploratory methods, Gibbs Sampler, data augmentations, and multiple imputations) and psychometric methods (measurement error models) regarding intervention impact, including models of mediation and effect modification and growth curve modeling. In addition to teaching in the University of South Florida, he is oo-principal investigator of a NIMH training grant program for the Baltimore Prevention Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Mental Health.
Hendricks has served on numerous advisory panels including: the NIH, NIMH, NIDA, DHHS, CDC, Pew Charitable Trusts, R.W. Johnson, and states of Florida and Illinois. He has published some 50 peer and 20 non-peer reviewed papers or chapters. These have appeared in: statistical, behavioral and social science, drug and addictions, social work, education, counseling, and medical (general, pediatrics, and psychiatric) journals. According to his c.v. he has delivered 99 scientific presentations since 1988.
We hope everyone attends the Rema Lapouse Award ceremony at APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this November, where Dr. C. Hendricks Brown will present his invited lecture, his 100th scientific presentation, as the Rema Lapouse Awardee for 2004.