Ronald Brookmeyer

Professor

PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1980

School/Organization
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department / Division
Biostatistics

Center and Institute Affiliations
Center for Global Health

Departmental Address
615 N. Wolfe St, E3142(Biostatistics)
Baltimore, MD 21205

Email: rbrook@jhsph.edu
Phone: 410-955-3519
Fax: 410-955-0958

For more information visit my personal web page.

• Dr. Brookmeyer’s research is at the interface of biostatistics and public health. A main theme of Dr. Brookmeyer’s work concerns statistical and quantitative approaches for measuring the health of populations. Dr. Brookmeyer develops statistical methods and models for tracking and forecasting health and disease. Dr. Brookmeyer has worked extensively on the development of methods for tracking the course of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Dr. Brookmeyer developed the back-calculation method for disease forecasting , and proposed statistical approaches for biomarker based methods for ascertaining current world-wide HIV incidence rates. Dr. Brookmeyer has also worked extensively on issues of biosecurity. He developed models for tracking and containing anthrax outbreaks. Dr. Brookmeyer also has ongoing projects in Alzheimer’s disease. His research interests in biostatistical methodology include survival analysis, epidemic models, epidemiological methods and multidimensional longitudinal data.
• Last year Dr. Brookmeyer chaired the International Advisory Commitee to UNAIDS on HIV/AIDS statistics
• Dr. Brookmeyer is visiting the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University during the 2008-2009 academic year

• Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the educational programs of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009
• Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control for outstanding publication in epidemiology,2009
• Chair-elect, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association (2009)
• National Biosurveillance Advisory Committee, Centers for Disease Control, 2008-
• Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (2007)
• Chair, Statistics Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow, American Statistical Association
• Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship, Harvard University
• Mortimer Speigelman Gold Medal in Health Statistics, American Public Health Association
• Golden Apple Johns Hopkins Teaching Awards (1985, 1999, and 2004)
• Biometrics Society Presidential Invited Addresses (WNAR, 1992; ENAR, 1996)
• Chair, Biometrics Section of American Statistical Association (1996)
• Council Member of the International Biometric Society (2004)

• Recent Publications from over 170 journal articles and books
• Articles
• Hall I, Song R, Rhodes P, Prejean J, An Q, Lee L, Karon J, Brookmeyer R, Kaplan E, McKenna M, Janssen R for the HIV Incidence Surveillance Group: “Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 300:520-529, 2008.
• Karon JM, Song R, Brookmeyer R, Kaplan E, Hall I: “Estimating HIV Incidence in the United States from HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data and Biomarker HIV Test Results,” Statistics in Medicine, 4617-4633, 2008.
• Crawford S, Reich N, An MW, Brookmeyer R, Louis T, Nelson K, Notari E, Trouern-Trend J, Zou S: “Regional and Temporal Variation in American Red Cross Blood Donations, 1995 to 2005 ,” Transfusion, 48:1576-1583, 2008.
• Corrada M, Brookmeyer R, Berlau D, Paganini-Hill A, Kawas CH: “Prevalence of Dementia After Age 90,” Neurology 71:337-343, 2008.
• Ziegler-Graham K, Mackenzie E, Ephraim P, Travison T, Brookmeyer R: “ Estimating the Prevalence of Limb Loss in the United States, 2005-2050,” Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 89:422-429, 2008
• Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Ziegler-Graham K, Arrighi HM (2007) Forecasting the Global Burden of Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's and Dementia, 3:186-191.
• Cole SR, Chu H, Brookmeyer R (2007) Confidence Intervals for Biomarker-based Human Immunodeficiency Virus Incidence Estimates and Differences Using Prevalent Data. American Journal of Epidemiology, 165:94-100.
• Johnson E, Brookmeyer R, Ziegler-Graham K: “Modeling the Effect of Alzheimer’s Disease on Mortality,” International Journal of Biostatistics, vol 3: Issue 1, article 13, 2007.
• Lessler J, Brookmeyer R, Perl T: “An Evaluation of Decision Rules Based on Date of Symptom Onset to Identify Health Care Associated Infections,” American Journal of Epidemiology 166(10):1220-1229, 2007.
• Brookmeyer R (2006). Modeling an Outbreak of Anthrax. Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, 4th edition, editors: R. Peck, G. Casella, G. Cobb, R. Hoerl, D. Nolan, R. Starbuck, H. Stern. Published by Thomson Brooks/Cole and the American Statistical Association.
• Brookmeyer R and You X (2006). A Hypothesis Test for the End of a Common Source Outbreak. Biometrics 61:61-5.
• Corrada MM, Kawas CH, Hallfrisch J, Muller D, Brookmeyer R (2005). Reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease with high folate intake: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 1(1):11-18
• Brookmeyer R (2005). Editorial: Biosecurity and the role of statisticians. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 168(2):263.
• Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Barry S (2005). Modeling the incubation period of anthrax. Statistics in Medicine 24(4):531-542.
• Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Bollinger R (2004). Public health vaccination policies for containing an anthrax outbreak. Nature 432(7019):901-904
• Reynolds SJ, Shepherd ME, Risbud AR, Gangakhedkar PR, Brookmeyer RS, Divekar AD, Mehendale SM, Bollinger RC (2004). Male circumcision and risk of HIV-1 and other sexually transmitted infections in India. Lancet 363(9414):1039-1040.
• Frangakis CE, Brookmeyer RS, Varadhan R, Safaeian M, Vlahov D, Strathdee A (2004). Methodology for evaluating a partially controlled longitudinal treatment using principal stratification, with application to a needle exchange program. Journal of the American Statistical Statistical Association 99(465):239-249.
• Brookmeyer R and Blades N (2003). Statistical models and bioterrorism: application to the U.S. anthrax outbreak. Journal of the American Statistical Association 98(464):781-788.
• Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Bollinger R (2003). Modeling the optimum duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in an anthrax outbreak. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(17):10129-10132.
• Brookmeyer R, Blades N (2002). Prevention of inhalational anthrax in the US outbreak. Science 295(5561):1861.
• Brookmeyer R, Corrada MM, Curriero FC, Kawas C (2002). Survival following a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Archives of Neurology 59(11):1764-1767.
• Brookmeyer R and Curriero FC (2002). Survival curve estimation with partial non random exposure information. Statistics in Medicine 21(18):2671-2683.
• Brookmeyer R, Blades N, Hugh-Jones M and Henderson DA (2001). The statistical analysis of truncated data: application to the Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak. Biostatistics 2(2):233-247.
• Kawas CH, Brookmeyer R (2001). Editorial: Aging and the public health effects of dementia. New England Journal of Medicine: 344(15):1160-1161.
• Gray SM, Brookmeyer R (2000). Multidimensional longitudinal data: estimating a treatment effect from continuous, discrete, or time-to-event. Journal of the American Statistical Association 95(450):396-406.
• Brookmeyer R, Gray S (2000). Methods for projecting the incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases in ageing populations: application to Alzheimer's disease. Statistics in Medicine 19(11-12):1481-1493.
• Books
• Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance. Brookmeyer R and Stroup D, eds. (2004), Oxford University Press, 370 pages.
• Kaplan E and Brookmeyer R, eds. (2002). Quantitative Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs, Yale University Press, 335 pages.
• Brookmeyer R and Gail MH (1994). AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach, Oxford University Press, 354 pages.