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.

HIV/AIDS

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Estimation of HIV Incidence Using Multiple Biomakers (with Jacob Konikoff, Oliver Laeyendecker, and Susan H. Eshleman), American Journal of Epidemiology (2013)
 

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Statistical Considerations in Determining HIV Incidence from Changes in HIV Prevalence (with Jacob Konikoff), Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases (2011)
 

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Measuring the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Approaches and Challenges, Epidemiologic Reviews (2010)
 

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On the Statistical Accuracy of Biomarker Assays of HIV Incidence, Journal of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (2010)
 

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Should Biomarker Estimates of HIV Incidence be Adjusted?, AIDS (2009)
 

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Aging

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National Estimates of the Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease in the United States (with Denis Evans, Liesi Hebert, Langa Kenneth, Heeringa Steven, Plassman Brenda, and Kukull Kenneth), Alzheimer's & Dementia (2011)
 
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)
 

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Forecasting the Global Burden of Alzheimer's Disease (with Elizabeth Johnson, Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, and H. Michael Arrighi), Alzheimer's and Dementia (2007)
 

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Modeling the Effect of Alzheimer's Disease on Mortality (with Elizabeth Johnson and Kathryn Ziegler-Graham), International Journal of Biostatistics (2007)
 

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Public Health: General

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Evaluation of Student Outcomes in Online vs. Campus Biostatistics Education in a Graduate School of Public Health (with John McGready), Preventive Medicine (2013)
 

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The Effects of Herd Immunity on the Power of Vaccine Trials (with Blake Charvat and Jay Herson), Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (2009)
 

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Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Methods for Public Health Surveillance (with Donna Stroup) (2004)
 

Biosecurity

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Modeling an Outbreak of Anthrax, Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown (2006)
 

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Biosecurity and the Role of Statisticians, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A (2005)
 

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Modeling the Incubation Period of Anthrax (with Elizabeth Johnson and Sarah Barry), Statistics in Medicine (2005)
 
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)
 

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