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Faculty Member

Kevin Antoine Brown PhD

Email Address(es)
kevin.antoine.brown(at)gmail.com
Office Address
Public Health Ontario, 661 University Ave, Suite 1701, Toronto ON, M5G1M1
Division(s)/Institute(s)
Epidemiology Division
Institute for Pandemics
Position
Associate Professor
SGS Status
Associate Member
Appointment Status
Status Only

Other affiliations

  • Senior scientist, Public Health Ontario
  • Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Academic degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Epidemiology), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Master of Science (Biostatistics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research interests

  • Public health perspectives on antimicrobial resistance and C. difficile infection
  • Audit and feedback applications applied to antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship
  • Regression models for longitudinal and clustered data
  • Assessing infection control effectiveness in acute and long-term care

Some publications
Updated list at Google Scholar: scholar.google.ca/citations?user=90s6cTYAAAAJ

  • Thampi N, Schwartz KL, Science M, Brown KA. School-Based Mandatory Masking Policies and Absenteeism in Ottawa, Canada, in 2022. JAMA Netw Open 2023. Link.
  • Zipursky JS, Brown KA, Khan S, Cohen E, Burke J, Austin E, Stall NM. Pediatric Dosing Errors during a National Shortage of Fever and Pain Medications. N Engl J Med 2023. Link.
  • Ulloa AC, Buchan SA, Daneman N, Brown KA. Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Severity in Ontario, Canada. JAMA 2022. Link.
  • Brown KA, Gubbay J, Hopkins J, Patel S, Buchan SA, Daneman N, Goneau LW. S-Gene Target Failure as a Marker of Variant B.1.1.7 Among SARS-CoV-2 Isolates in the Greater Toronto Area, December 2020 to March 2021. JAMA 2021. Link.
  • Stall NM, Zipursky JS, Rangrej J, Jones A, Costa AP, Hillmer MP, Brown KA. Assessment of Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada, During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Intern Med 2021. Link.
  • Brown KA, Jones A, Daneman N, Chan AK, Schwartz KL, Garber GE, Costa AP, Stall NM. Association Between Nursing Home Crowding and COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Intern Med 2020. Link.
  • Brown KA, Langford B, Schwartz KL, Diong C, Garber G, Daneman N. Antibiotic Prescribing Choices and Their Comparative C. Difficile Infection Risks: A Longitudinal Case-Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021. Link.
  • Brown KA, Daneman N, Schwartz KL, Langford B, McGeer A, Quirk J, Diong C, Garber G. The Urine-culturing Cascade: Variation in Nursing Home Urine Culturing and Association With Antibiotic Use and Clostridiodes difficile Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2020. Link.
  • Jones BE, Jones MM, Huttner B, Stoddard G, Brown KA, Stevens VW, Greene T, Sauer B, Madaras-Kelly K, Rubin M, Goetz MB, Samore M. Trends in Antibiotic Use and Nosocomial Pathogens in Hospitalized Veterans with Pneumonia at 128 Medical Centers, 2006–2010. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2015; 61:1403–1410. Link
  • Brown KA, Valenta K, Fisman D, Simor A, Daneman N. Hospital Ward Antibiotic Prescribing and the Risks of Clostridium difficile Infection. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175(4):626–633. Link
  • Brown KA, Arora P, Daneman N, Moineddin R, and Fisman D. The Co–Seasonality of Pneumonia and Influenza with Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in the United States, 1993 to 2008. Am J of Epi 2013; 178:118–125. Link
  • Brown KA, Khanafer N, Daneman N, Fisman DN. Meta–Analysis of Antibiotics and the Risk of Community–Associated Clostridium difficile Infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2013; 57:2326–2332. Link
  • Lambert L, Brown KA, Segal E, Brophy J, Rodes–Cabau J, Bogaty P. Association between timeliness of reperfusion therapy and clinical outcomes in ST–elevation myocardial infarction. JAMA 2010; 303:2148. Link