Roles
Research Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Architecture
Director, University of Miami Built Environment, Behavior and Health Research Group
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Biography
Scott C. Brown, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the UM School of Architecture. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary UM Built Environment, Behavior and Health Group. Over the past two decades, Dr. Brown has served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or Project Director on ten funded grants examining the health impacts of the built environment in diverse populations, including children, older adults, recent immigrants, and minority communities.
Dr. Brown’s research program is grounded in extensive expertise in team science, project leadership, and the management and analysis of large-scale (“big data”) datasets to advance cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary investigation. His work encompasses the assessment of social determinants of health, with particular emphasis on urban built environmental policies and initiatives. He led the development of an innovative methodological approach integrating U.S. Medicare data with high-resolution satellite imagery to evaluate the role of block-level greenness in twelve chronic health conditions among approximately 250,000 Medicare beneficiaries residing in Miami.
Dr. Brown is currently the Principal Investigator on two NIH-funded R01 awards focused on the influence of greenness on chronic disease outcomes in minority populations. His interdisciplinary research team represents a broad spectrum of fields, including architecture, biostatistics, cancer epidemiology, exercise physiology, geography, medicine, neurology, nutrition, public health, and urban planning. He provides comprehensive scientific leadership and project oversight, including responsibility for research design, analytic direction, and fiscal management.
Dr. Brown’s sustained program of research, longstanding leadership of a diverse interdisciplinary research group, and commitment to advancing methodological innovation collectively support his ability to foster robust collaborative environments. His leadership approach consistently catalyzes high-quality scientific contributions and promotes a culture of innovation and discovery across disciplinary boundaries. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
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Honors & Awards
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Teaching Interests
I teach EPH 640 (Urban Environment and Public Health), a graduate-level course which I developed in 2012, and which I have now taught 12 times. The course receives outstanding teaching evaluations (average mean evaluation of 4.7 out of 5.0). -
Research Interests
My highly interdisciplinary team of behavioral scientists, physicians, methodologists and architects extended research on built environment-behavior-health to Hispanics; I conducted research on a sample that minimized the confound of choice on walkability; used a nationally available walkability measure to facilitate national replications, and established the role of greenery in 12 chronic conditions in Medicare beneficiaries. My published research findings have informed the recently developed Active Design Miami strategies for promoting healthy communities, and have been cited in the US EPA Guide to Smart Growth and Aging. -
Publications
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Professional Activities
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