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Heidi E. Brown, PhD, MPH, has a research focus on understanding vector-borne and zoonotic disease transmission dynamics as a means of improving disease control. She works to identify human disease risk through modeling vector, host and pathogen distributions. Current research areas include vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, spatial epidemiology, and climate change.
Teaching areas include undergraduate epidemiology and a graduate level spatial epidemiology course.Show Less
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Courses
- IMPHIntroduction to Mapping for Public Health
- IHSSIntroduction to Health Sciences Statistics
- CHClimate and Health
- HDACMHealth Data Analysis and Communication Methods
- SESpatial Epidemiology
- IEIntroduction to Epidemiology
- IDEInfectious Disease Epidemiology
Grants
- Cultivating Equitable Responses to Increased Aridity in the US Southwest: The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$1.2M
Active - Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$500.0K
Active - Barriers to Treatment and Testing for Helicobacter pylori among Navajo- Navajo Healthy Stomach Project
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$11.9K
Active - Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$180.0K
Active - The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (2 of 2)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$166.2K
Active - Collaboratively Assessing Critical Social-Ecological System Buffers to Help Build Regional Climate Resilience: The Climate Assessment for the Southwest
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$3.7M
Active - DARPA Chikungunya Challenge Prize
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$150.0K
Active - Antibiotic Resistance Rates for Helicobacter pylori
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$12.5K
- Enhancing Innovation and Capabilities of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$40.0K
- Pacific Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease Research at the University of California
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$25.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Physician-Researcher Analyzes Data to Inform COVID-19 Public Policy
2020
- Students Use CyVerse to Help Predict Mosquito-Borne Diseases
2017
- UA Experts Available for Comment on Zika Virus
2016
- 2 From UA Solve Public Health Issue, Win Competition
2015
- New Book Outlines Unique Challenges Climate Instability Poses to Southwest
2013
- Rabies Research Designed for Prevention
2013
- UA Working to Expand Student Research, Graduate Admissions
2013
Publications (89)
Recent
- Comparison of Prognostic Factors for Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Mucosal Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma: Insights into Their Etiologies
2023
- Helicobacter pylori treatment knowledge, access and barriers: A cross‐sectional study
2023
- The malaria transmission in Anhui province China
2023
- Evaluating the Strength of Association of Human Papillomavirus Infection With Penile Carcinoma: A Meta-Analysis
2022
- Health and economic benefits are motivations for individual climate action
2022
- COVID-19 prevention measures reduce dengue spread in Yunnan Province, China, but do not reduce established outbreak
2022
- Disaster event effects on cat and dog populations within United States animal care facility services: A cross sectional study
2022
- Application of the Geographic Human Heat Balance Equation to Public Health in the Arizona Urban Sun Corridor
2022
- Prevalence and Risk Factors in Three Rural Indigenous Communities of Northern Arizona
2022
- Chagas Disease in Pregnant Women from Endemic Regions Attending the Hospital General de Mexico, Mexico City
2022
- Ambient UVR and Environmental Arsenic Exposure in Relation to Cutaneous Melanoma in Iowa
2022
- Global Warming’s Six MTurks: A Secondary Analysis of a US-Based Online Crowdsourcing Market
2022
- in Native Americans in Northern Arizona
2022
- Estimating Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Flight Distance: Meta-Data Analysis
2022
- Helicobacter pylori Prevalence and Risk Factors in Three Rural Indigenous Communities of Northern Arizona
2022
- Greening Up For Mosquitoes: A Comparison of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in a Semiarid Region
2022
- Improving Undergraduate Epidemiology Education: An Example Using Instructional Teams
2021
- Brown and Cox Respond to Epidemiologic Methods in Epidemiology Education
2021
- Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru
2021
- Understanding Mosquito Surveillance Data for Analytic Efforts: A Case Study
2021
- Predicting eastern equine encephalitis spread in North America: An ecological study
2021
- A 70% Reduction in Mosquito Populations Does Not Require Removal of 70% of Mosquitoes
2020
- Engaging public health stakeholders in climate and health adaptation
2020
- Abstract PO-162: Helicobacter pylori in Native Americans in Northern Arizona
2020
- A 70 percent reduction in mosquito populations does not require removal of 70 percent of mosquitoes
2020
- Participation and Engagement of Public Health Stakeholders in Climate and Health Adaptation
2020
- Regional Variation of Pancreatic Cancer Incidence in the Nile Delta Region of Egypt over a Twelve-Year Period
2020
- Synergistic China-US Ecological Research is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness.
2020
- Emerging evidence for infectious causes of cancer in the United States.
2019
- A Case-Control Study to Identify Community Venues Associated with Genetically-clustered, Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Disease in Lima, Peru.
2019
- DSM II Colormeter for measuring skin color: its usefulness and reliability of its measurement of melanin
2019
- Ethnic Disparities in Gastric Cancer Presentation and Screening Practice in the United States: Analysis of 1997-2010 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare Data
2019
- Disgust as an emotional driver of vaccine attitudes and uptake? A mediation analysis
2019
- A new gravity model for spatial interaction
2019
- Ethnic disparities in gastric cancer presentation and screening practice in the United States: Analysis of 1997–2010 surveillance, epidemiology, and end results-Medicare data
2019
- Identification and characterization of a mosquito-specific eggshell organizing factor in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
2019
- The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 25: Southwest
2019
- A case-control study to identify community venues associated with genetically-clustered, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in Lima, Peru
2019
- A cumulative gravity model for inter-urban spatial interaction at different scales
2019
- Chapter 25 : Southwest. Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II
2018
- Summary Results of the 2014-2015 DARPA Chikungunya Challenge
2018
- Population knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding Helicobacter pylori transmission and outcomes: A literature review
2017
- Effect of Temperature Thresholds on Modeled Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) population dynamics
2017
- Temporal Trends in Satellite-Derived Erythemal UVB and Implications for Ambient Sun Exposure Assessment
2017
- Spatio-temporal and neighborhood characteristics of two dengue outbreaks in two arid cities of Mexico
2017
- Habitat and Density of Oviposition Opportunity Influences Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Flight Distance
2017
- Management of Helicobacter Pylori in the United States: Results from a national survey of gastroenterology physicians
2017
- Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance Model Improved With Relative Humidity and Precipitation-Driven Egg Hatching
2017
- Spatial scale in environmental risk mapping: A Valley fever case study
2017
- Workplace availability, risk group and perceived barriers predictive of 2016-17 influenza vaccine uptake in the United States: A cross-sectional study
2017
- Data-driven outbreak forecasting with a simple nonlinear growth model
2016
- Use of regional networks for characterizing the spread of vector-borne diseases
2016
- A Critical Assessment of Officially Reported Chagas Disease Surveillance Data in Mexico.
2016
- Serologic evidence for fecal-oral transmission of helicobacter pylori
2016
- Infectious disease mortality trends in the United States, 1980-2014
2016
- A critical assessment of officially reported chagas disease surveillance data in Mexico
2016
- Influence of the length of storage on Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) egg viability
2016
- Mosquito avoidance practices and knowledge of arboviral diseases in cities with differing recent history of disease
2015
- Projection of Climate Change Influences on U.S. West Nile Virus Vectors
2015
- Characteristics of Wind-Infective Farms of the 2006 Bluetongue Serotype 8 Epidemic in Northern Europe
2015
- Recognizing the Role of Skunks in Human and Animal Rabies Exposures in the Southwest
2015
- Spatial and temporal clustering of chikungunya virus transmission in Dominica
2015
- A Survey of Screening and Treatment Practices for Helicobacter pylori in the United States: 144
2014
- Factors influencing U.S. canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) prevalence
2014
- Climate choices for a sustainable southwest
2013
- Human health
2013
- Information and decision support systems
2012
- Evaluation and modification of off-host flea collection techniques used in northwest Uganda: laboratory and field studies
2012
- A new algorithm quantifies the roles of wind and midge flight activity in the bluetongue epizootic in northwest Europe
2012
- Key factors influencing canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, in the United States
2012
- Variation in vector competence for dengue viruses does not depend on mosquito midgut binding affinity
2011
- An acarologic survey and Amblyomma americanum distribution map with implications for tularemia risk in Missouri
2011
- Annual seroprevalence of Yersinia pestis in coyotes as predictors of interannual variation in reports of human plague cases in Arizona, United States
2011
- The effect of spatial and temporal subsetting on culex tarsalis abundance models-a design for sensible reduction of vector surveillance
2011
- Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data
2010
- Mapping the basic reproduction number (R 0) for vector-borne diseases: a case study on bluetongue virus
2009
- Mapping the basic reproduction number (R<inf>0</inf>) for vector-borne diseases: A case study on bluetongue virus
2009
- Effectiveness of mosquito traps in measuring species abundance and composition
2008
- Comparison of three satellite sensors at three spatial scales to predict larval mosquito presence in Connecticut wetlands
2008
- Invasion of bluetongue and other orbivirus infections into Europe: The role of biological and climatic processes
2008
- Ecological factors associated with west nile virus transmission, northeastern United States
2008
- Remotely-sensed vegetation indices identify mosquito clusters of West Nile virus vectors in an urban landscape in the northeastern United States
2008
- Modeling the spatial distribution of mosquito vectors West Nile virus in Connecticut, USA
2006
- Utilizing hemodynamic delay and dispersion to detect fMRI signal change without auditory interference: The behavior interleaved gradients technique
1999
- fMRI acquisition without auditory interference: The flatcar design
1998
- L-arginine reverses the adverse pregnancy changes induced by nitric oxide synthase inhibition in the rat
1996