Ron Brookmeyer works at the interface of biostatistics, public health and epidemiology. He uses the tools of the statistical, informational and mathematical sciences to address global public health problems.
Aging
Worldwide Variation in the Doubling Time of Alzheimer's Disease Incidence Rates (with Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, Elizabeth Johnson, and H. Michael Arrighi), Alzheimer's and Dementia (2008)
Prevalence of Dementia After Age 90 (with Maria Corrada, D Berlau, A Paganini-Hill, and Claudia Kawas), Neurology (2008)
Forecasting the Global Burden of Alzheimer's Disease (with Elizabeth Johnson, Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, and H. Michael Arrighi), Alzheimer's and Dementia (2007)
Modeling the Effect of Alzheimer's Disease on Mortality (with Elizabeth Johnson and Kathryn Ziegler-Graham), International Journal of Biostatistics (2007)
Software to Forecast the Global Burden of Alzheimer's Disease (with Elizabeth Johnson, Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, and H. Michael Arrighi) (2007)
Biosecurity
Public Health Vaccination Policies for Containing an Anthrax Outbreak (with Elizabeth Johnson and Robert Bollinger), Nature (2004)
Modeling the Optimum Duration of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in an Anthrax Outbreak (with Elizabeth Johnson and Robert Bollinger), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
Statistical Models and Bioterrorism: Application to the U.S. Anthrax Outbreak (with Natalie Blades), Journal of the American Statistical Association (2003)
HIV/AIDS
Estimating HIV Incidence in the United States from HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data and Biomarker HIV Test Results (with John Karon, R Song, Edward Kaplan, and Irene Hall), Statistics in Medicine (2008)
Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States (with Irene Hall, R Song, P Rhodes, John Karon, Edward Kaplan, M McKenna, R Janssen, and HIV Incidence Surveillance Group), Journal of the American Medical Association (2008)
Confidence Intervals for Biomarker-based Human Immunodeficiecny Virus Incidence Estimates and Differences Using Prevalent Data (with S Cole and H Chu), American Journal of Epidemiology (2007)