Shawn T. Brown, PhD
Public Health Application Developer, Systems Science Core
Director of Public Health Applications, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Shawn T. Brown received his PhD. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia in 2001 and is an expert in scientific simulation and modeling. He leads a team of developers, scientists and modelers in research spanning agent-based modeling of public health systems, obesity prevention, and mitigating infectious disease spread; supply chain modeling for immunization, agri-food, and other public health commodities in low and middle income countries; and development of computational infrastructure for public health decision support.
He also leads the software development of several computational models and platforms and manages the software development of the VPOP agent-based modeling tool to address obesity at the Global Obesity Prevention Center.
Representative Publications:
- Brown ST, Schreiber B, Cakouros BE, Wateska AR, Dicko HM, Connor DL, Jaillard P, Mvundura M, Norman BA, Levin C, Rajgopal J, Avella M, Lebrun C, Claypool E, Paul P, Lee BY. The benefits of redesigning Benin's vaccine supply chain. Vaccine. 2014;32(32):4097-103. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.090. PubMed PMID: 24814550.
- Lee BY, Wong KF, Bartsch SM, Yilmaz SL, Avery TR, Brown ST, Song Y, Singh A, Kim DS, Huang SS. The Regional Healthcare Ecosystem Analyst (RHEA): a simulation modeling tool to assist infectious disease control in a health system. J Am Med Inform Assn. 2013;20(E1):E139-E46. doi: DOI 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001107. PubMed PMID: WOS:000319192100023.
- Brown ST, Tai JH, Bailey RR, Cooley PC, Wheaton WD, Potter MA, Voorhees RE, LeJeune M, Grefenstette JJ, Burke DS, McGlone SM, Lee BY. Would school closure for the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic have been worth the cost?: a computational simulation of Pennsylvania. BMC public health. 2011;11:353. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-353. PubMed PMID: 21599920; PMCID: 3119163.
- Lee BY, Brown ST, Bailey RR, Zimmerman RK, Potter MA, McGlone SM, Cooley PC, Grefenstette JJ, Zimmer SM, Wheaton WD, Quinn SC, Voorhees RE, Burke DS. The Benefits To All Of Ensuring Equal And Timely Access To Influenza Vaccines In Poor Communities. Health affairs. 2011;30(6):1141-50. doi: DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0778. PubMed PMID: WOS:000291436100020.
- Brown ST, Lee BY. Unless changes are made in Benin, multiple storage and transport bottlenecks may prevent vaccines from reaching the population. Vaccine. 2014;32(21):2518-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.02.060. PubMed PMID: 24582633.
For a full publications list, see here.