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
Statistical Considerations in Determining HIV Incidence from Changes in HIV Prevalence (with Jacob Konikoff), Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases (2011)
On the Statistical Accuracy of Biomarker Assays of HIV Incidence, Journal of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (2010)
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)
Aging
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)
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)
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)