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David Brown

David Brown, MPH
Director of Program Development,
Center for Health Research

In August 2005, after 30 years of public service in environmental health, David Brown began working for Constella, where he serves as director of program development for the Center for Health Research. Brown works with all of the centers within Health Sciences and across business units of Constella on developing new opportunities and pursuing collaborative projects. He is also the steward for the Environmental Health Collaborative.

Brown obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry from San Diego State University in 1973 and a master's of public health degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. He began his career as a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) in 1975 when he started working for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control in Cincinnati, Ohio. At NIOSH Brown conducted numerous epidemiology studies involving workers exposed to various toxic agents, including PCBs, asbestos, silica, perchloroethylene, pesticides, enriched uranium, and vinyl chloride. He also assisted in the management, at the branch and division level, of many other studies and investigations bringing together multidisciplinary teams of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, industrial hygienists, and computer technologists. 

In 1991, Brown continued his career in the USPHS at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. At NIEHS, he worked on prevention programs, served as a scientific review administrator and in the Director's office as Chief of Staff.

Publications of David Brown, MPH

  • Brown DP, Jones M: Mortality and Industrial Hygiene Study of Workers Exposed to PCB's.  Archives of Environmental Health. 36:120-129, May/June 1981.

  • Ditraglia D, Brown DP, Namekata T, Iverson N: Mortality Study of Workers Employed at Organochlorine Pesticide Manufacturing Plants.  Scand J Work Environ Health 7 (1981),Supplement 4, 140-146.

  • Brown DP, Dobbins RD, Tanaka S, Straub W: Evaluation of "Legionnaires Disease", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. TA 76, DSHEFS I Report. (Internal NIOSH Document).

  • Waxweiler R, Beaumont J, Henry J, Brown DP, Robinson C, Ness G, Wagoner J, Lemen R: A Modified Life Table Analysis System for Cohort Studies.  JOM. 25:115-124, 1983.

  • Brown DP, Kaplan SD, Zumwalde RD, Kaplowitz M, Archer AE.  Retrospective Cohort Mortality Study of Underground Gold Mine Workers. In Silica, Silicosis, and Cancer - Cancer Research Monographs, Vol. 2. Goldsmith, DF, Winn DM, Shy CM (eds.), Praeger, New York, 1986.  pp. 335-350.

  • Beaumont JJ, Leveton J, Knox K, Bloom T, McQuiston T, Young M, Goldsmith R, Steenland K, Brown D, Halperin W.  Lung Cancer Mortality in Workers Exposed to Sulfuric Acid Mist and Other Acid Mists.  JNCI 79:911-921, 1987.

  • Brown DP.  Mortality of Workers Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls - An Update.  Arch. Enviro. Health.  42:333-339, November, 1987.

  • Brown DP, Kaplan SD.  Retrospective Cohort Mortality Study of Dry Cleaner Workers Using Perchloroethylene.  JOM 29:  535-541, 1987.

  • Waxweiler RJ, Zumwalde ED, Ness GO, Brown DP.  Mortality  Among Persons Mining and Milling Attapulgite Clay.  AJIM. 13:305-315, 1988.

  • Wu W, Steenland K, Brown D, et. al.  Cohort and Case-Control Analyses of Workers Exposed to Vinyl Chloride - an update.  JOM 31:6, 1989.

  • Lemen RA, Meinhardt TJ, Crandall MS, Fajen JM, Brown DP.   Environmental Epidemiologic Investigations in the Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Production Industry.  Enviro. Health Perspectives 86:103-106, 1990.

  • Steenland K, Beaumont J, Spaeth S, Brown D., et al.  New Developments in the Life Table Analysis System of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and health.  JOM 32:1091-1098, 1990.

  • Brown DP. Mortality of Workers Employed at Organochlorine Pesticide Manufacturing Plants - An Update.  Scandinavian J. Work and Enviro. 18:155-161, 1992.

  • Brown DP, Dement J, Okun A.  Mortality Patterns Among Female and Male Chrysotile Asbestos Textile Workers.  JOM 36: 882-888, 1994.

  • Dement J, Brown DP, Okun, A.   Follow-up Study of Chrysotile Asbestos Textile Workers:  Cohort Mortality and Case-control Analyses.   Am J Ind Med 26:431-447, 1994.

  • Ruder A, Ward E, Brown DP.  Cancer Mortality in Female and Male Dry Cleaning Workers Exposed to Perchloroethylene and Stoddard Solvent.  JOM 36:867-874, 1994. 

  • Pottern LM, Zahm SH, Sieber, S, Schneider I, LaRosa J, Brown DP, Collman G, Fingerhut M, Waters M.  Occupational Cancer Among Women: A Conference Overview.  JOM 36:809-813, 1994.


  • Steenland K, Brown DP.   Mortality Study of Gold Miners Exposed to Silica  and Nonasbestiform Amphibole Minerals:- An Update With 14 More Years of follow-up.  Am J Ind Med 27:217-229, 1995.


  • Steenland K, Brown DP.  Silicosis Among Gold-Miners:  Exposure-Response Analyses and Risk Assessment.  AJPH 85:1372-1377, 1995. (Winner of the Alice Hamilton Science Award, 1996).


  • Stayner L, Smith R, Bailer J, Gilbert S, Steenland K, Dement J, Brown D, Lemen R. Exposure-Response Analysis of Risk of Respiratory Disease Associated with Occupational Exposure to Chrysotile Asbestos.  Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  54:646-652, 1997.


  • Ruder AM, Ward EM, Brown DP. Mortality in Dry-Cleaning Workers: An Update.  Am J Indus Med 39: 121-132, 2001.


  • O'Fallon LR, Wolfle GM, Brown D, Dearry A, Olden, K.  Strategies for setting a national research agenda that is responsive to community needs.  EHP.  111: 1855-1860, 2003.


  • Weis BK, Balshaw D, Barr J, Brown D, Ellisman M, Lioy P, Omenn G, Potter J, Smith M, Sohn L, Suk W, Sumner S, Swenberg J, Walt D, Watkins S, Thompson C, Wilson S.  Personalized Exposure Assessment: Promising Approaches for Human Environmental Health Research.  EHP. 113: 840-848, 2005

Chapters in Books:

  • Halperin W, Beaumont J, Brown D, Clapp D, Haring M, McCammon C, Meinhardt T, Okun A, Reeve G, Rinsky R, Roscoe R, Smith AB, Stayner F, Ward E, Bazas T:  The Cohort Study.  In: Epidemiology of Occupational Health.  Eds. Karvonen M, Mikheev MI: WHO Regional Publications, European Series No. 20, 1986.

  • Smith AB, Brown D.  Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the workplace.  In: PCB's and the Environment.  Ed. Waid SW, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1986.

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