William Brown, PhD, DrPH, MA
Education
Honors and Awards
- AMIA Annual Symposium Paper Competition (2nd Pl), American Medical Informatics Association, 2016
- NIMH LRP Award Renewal, National Institutes of Health, 2015
- NIMH LRP Award, National Institutes of Health, 2012
- Academic Grant Award, Russell M. Grossman Endowment, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
- Kaiser Foundation Academic Grant Award, Kaiser Foundation, Kaiser Foundation, 2009
Websites
Publications
Liu AW, Pierce L, Ganeshan S, Brown W, Judson T, Divakaran D, Bini S, Odisho AY, Mourad M. Impact of an automated peri-procedural digital health intervention on rates of emergency department visits and readmissions. American journal of surgery 2023. PMID: 37604749
Mehta S, Brown W, Ferguson E, Najera J, Pantell MS. The association between prescription drug monitoring programs and controlled substance prescribing: a cross-sectional study using data from 2019 National Electronic Health Records Survey. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2023. PMID: 37011637
Ganeshan S, Pierce L, Mourad M, Judson TJ, Kohli MD, Odisho AY, Brown W. Impact of patient portal-based self-scheduling of diagnostic imaging studies on health disparities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022. PMID: 36063414
Liu AW, Odisho AY, Brown Iii W, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB, Judson TJ. Patient Experience and Feedback After Using an Electronic Health Record-Integrated COVID-19 Symptom Checker: Survey Study. JMIR human factors 2022. PMID: 35960593
Kim Hanh Nguyen, Anupama G Cemballi, Jessica D Fields, William Brown, 3rd, Matthew S Pantell, Courtney Rees Lyles. Applying a socioecological framework to chronic disease management: implications for social informatics interventions in safety-net healthcare settings Applying a socioecological framework to chronic disease management: implications for social informatics interventions in safety-net healthcare settings 2022. PMID:
Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison JD. Lessons learned from academic medical centers' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 35381019
Nguyen KH, Cemballi AG, Fields JD, Brown W, Pantell MS, Lyles CR. Applying a socioecological framework to chronic disease management: implications for social informatics interventions in safety-net healthcare settings. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 35571359
Balyan, Renu., McNamara, Danielle. S., Crossley, Scott. A., Brown, William., Karter, Andrew. J., & Schillinger, Dean.. Natural Language Processing in Healthcare: A Special Focus on Low Resource Languages Employing Computational Linguistics to Improve Patient-Provider Secure Email exchange: The ECLIPPSE Study. 2021. PMID:
Nguyen KH, Fields JD, Cemballi AG, Desai R, Gopalan A, Cruz T, Shah A, Akom A, Brown W, Sarkar U, Lyles CR. The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Improving Chronic Care for Safety-Net Populations. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021. PMID: 34312263
Cemballi AG, Karter AJ, Schillinger D, Liu JY, McNamara DS, Brown W, Crossley S, Semere W, Reed M, Allen J, Lyles CR. Descriptive examination of secure messaging in a longitudinal cohort of diabetes patients in the ECLIPPSE study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020. PMID: 33236117
Brown W, Balyan R, Karter AJ, Crossley S, Semere W, Duran ND, Lyles C, Liu J, Moffet HH, Daniels R, McNamara DS, Schillinger D. Challenges and Solutions to Employing Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Measure Patients' Health Literacy and Physician Writing Complexity: The ECLIPPSE Study. Journal of biomedical informatics 2020. PMID: 33316421
Lentz C, Iribarren S, Giguere R, Conserve DF, Dolezal C, Lopez-Rios J, Balán IC, Sheinfil AZ, Rael CT, Brown W, Torres CC, Crespo R, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Broaching the Topic of HIV Self-testing with Potential Sexual Partners Among Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex with Men in New York and Puerto Rico. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32239360
Iribarren S, Lentz C, Sheinfil AZ, Giguere R, Lopez-Rios J, Dolezal C, Frasca T, Balán IC, Tagliaferri Rael C, Brown W, Cruz Torres C, Crespo R, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Using an HIV Self-test Kit to Test a Partner: Attitudes and Preferences Among High-Risk Populations. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32385676
Sheinfil AZ, Giguere R, Dolezal C, Lopez-Rios J, Iribarren S, Brown W, Rael C, Lentz C, Balán I, Frasca T, Torres CC, Crespo R, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Information and Motivation Predict HIV-Serostatus Among a Population of High-Risk Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex with Men. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32200447
Balán IC, Lopez-Rios J, Giguere R, Lentz C, Dolezal C, Cruz Torres C, Brown W, Crespo R, Sheinfil A, Tagliaferri Rael C, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Then We Looked at His Results: Men Who Have Sex With Men from New York City and Puerto Rico Report Their Sexual Partner's Reactions to Receiving Reactive HIV Self-Test Results. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32078078
Rael CT, Giguere R, Lopez-Rios J, Lentz C, Balán IC, Sheinfil A, Dolezal C, Brown W, Frasca T, Torres CC, Crespo R, Iribarren S, Leu CS, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Transgender Women's Experiences Using a Home HIV-Testing Kit for Partner-Testing. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32193729
Carballo-Diéguez A, Giguere R, Balán IC, Dolezal C, Brown W, Lopez-Rios J, Sheinfil A, Frasca T, Rael C, Lentz C, Crespo R, Cruz Torres C, Leu CS, Febo I. Few Aggressive or Violent Incidents are Associated with the Use of HIV Self-tests to Screen Sexual Partners Among Key Populations. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 32030526
Carballo-Diéguez A, Giguere R, Balán IC, Brown W, Dolezal C, Leu CS, Lopez Rios J, Sheinfil AZ, Frasca T, Rael CT, Lentz C, Crespo R, Iribarren S, Cruz Torres C, Febo I. Use of Rapid HIV Self-Test to Screen Potential Sexual Partners: Results of the ISUM Study. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 31853772
Brown W, Lopez Rios J, Sheinfil A, Frasca T, Cruz Torres C, Crespo R, Dolezal C, Giguere R, Lentz C, Balán IC, Rael CT, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Text Messaging and Disaster Preparedness Aids Engagement, Re-Engagement, Retention, and Communication Among Puerto Rican Participants in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Self-Testing Study After Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2020. PMID: 32264992
Giguere R, Lopez-Rios J, Frasca T, Lentz C, Balán IC, Dolezal C, Rael CT, Brown W, Sheinfil AZ, Cruz Torres C, Crespo R, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Use of HIV Self-Testing Kits to Screen Clients Among Transgender Female Sex Workers in New York and Puerto Rico. AIDS and behavior 2020. PMID: 31865516
Semere W, Crossley S, Karter AJ, Lyles CR, Brown W, Reed M, McNamara DS, Liu JY, Schillinger D. Secure Messaging with Physicians by Proxies for Patients with Diabetes: Findings from the ECLIPPSE Study. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31428986
Brown W, Sheinfil A, Lopez-Rios J, Giguere R, Dolezal C, Frasca T, Lentz C, Balán IC, Rael C, Cruz Torres C, Crespo R, Febo I, Carballo-Diéguez A. Methods, system errors, and demographic differences in participant errors using daily text message-based short message service computer-assisted self-interview (SMS-CASI) to measure sexual risk behavior in a RCT of HIV self-test use. mHealth 2019. PMID: 31380409
Balyan R, Crossley SA, Brown W, Karter AJ, McNamara DS, Liu JY, Lyles CR, Schillinger D. Using natural language processing and machine learning to classify health literacy from secure messages: The ECLIPPSE study. PloS one 2019. PMID: 30794616
Leu CS, Giguere R, Bauermeister JA, Dolezal C, Brown W, Balán IC, Richardson BA, Piper JM, Lama JR, Cranston RD, Carballo-Diéguez A. Trajectory of use over time of an oral tablet and a rectal gel for HIV prevention among transgender women and men who have sex with men. AIDS care 2018. PMID: 30318905
Giguere R, Brown Iii W, Balán IC, Dolezal C, Ho T, Sheinfil A, Ibitoye M, Lama JR, McGowan I, Cranston RD, Carballo-Diéguez A. Are participants concerned about privacy and security when using short message service to report product adherence in a rectal microbicide trial? Volume 25 of Issue 4. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2018. PMID: 29025127
Brown W, Giguere R, Sheinfil A, Ibitoye M, Balan I, Ho T, Brown B, Quispe L, Sukwicha W, Lama JR, Carballo-Diéguez A, Cranston RD. Challenges and solutions implementing an SMS text message-based survey CASI and adherence reminders in an international biomedical HIV PrEP study (MTN 017). Volume 80. Journal of biomedical informatics 2018. PMID: 29501908
Balán IC, Giguere R, Brown W, Carballo-Diéguez A, Horn S, Hendrix CW, Marzinke MA, Ayudhya RPKN, Patterson K, Piper JM, McGowan I, Lama JR, Cranston RD. Brief Participant-Centered Convergence Interviews Integrate Self-Reports, Product Returns, and Pharmacokinetic Results to Improve Adherence Measurement in MTN-017. Volume 22 of Issue 3. AIDS and behavior 2018. PMID: 29076032
Giguere R, Rael CT, Sheinfil A, Balán IC, Brown W, Ho T, Dolezal C, Leu CS, Liu A, Mayer KH, Lama JR, McGowan I, Carballo-Diéguez A, Cranston RD. Factors Supporting and Hindering Adherence to Rectal Microbicide Gel Use with Receptive Anal Intercourse in a Phase 2 Trial. Volume 22 of Issue 2. AIDS and behavior 2018. PMID: 28825142
Iribarren SJ, Ghazzawi A, Sheinfil AZ, Frasca T, Brown W, Lopez-Rios J, Rael CT, Balán IC, Crespo R, Dolezal C, Giguere R, Carballo-Diéguez A. Mixed-Method Evaluation of Social Media-Based Tools and Traditional Strategies to Recruit High-Risk and Hard-to-Reach Populations into an HIV Prevention Intervention Study. Volume 22 of Issue 1. AIDS and behavior 2018. PMID: 29124420
Carballo-Diéguez A, Giguere R, Dolezal C, Leu CS, Balán IC, Brown W, Rael C, Richardson BA, Piper JM, Bekker LG, Chariyalertsak S, Chitwarakorn A, Gonzales P, Holtz TH, Liu A, Mayer KH, Zorrilla CD, Lama JR, McGowan I, Cranston RD. Preference of Oral Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate/Emtricitabine Versus Rectal Tenofovir Reduced-Glycerin 1% Gel Regimens for HIV Prevention Among Cisgender Men and Transgender Women Who Engage in Receptive Anal Intercourse with Men. Volume 21 of Issue 12. AIDS and behavior 2017. PMID: 29119473
Carballo-Diéguez A, Balán IC, Brown W, Giguere R, Dolezal C, Leu CS, Marzinke MA, Hendrix CW, Piper JM, Richardson BA, Grossman C, Johnson S, Gomez K, Horn S, Kunjara Na Ayudhya RP, Patterson K, Jacobson C, Bekker LG, Chariyalertsak S, Chitwarakorn A, Gonzales P, Holtz TH, Liu A, Mayer KH, Zorrilla C, Lama J, McGowan I, Cranston RD. High levels of adherence to a rectal microbicide gel and to oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) achieved in MTN-017 among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. Volume 12 of Issue 7. PloS one 2017. PMID: 28750059
Brown W, Weng C, Vawdrey DK, Carballo-Diéguez A, Bakken S. SMASH: A Data-driven Informatics Method to Assist Experts in Characterizing Semantic Heterogeneity among Data Elements. Volume 2016. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2017. PMID: 28269930
Rael CT, Sheinfil A, Hampanda K, Carballo-Diéguez A, Pala AN, Brown W. Examining the unique characteristics of a non-probability sample of undocumented female sex workers with dependent children: The case of Haitians in the Dominican Republic. Volume 21 of Issue 3. Sexuality & culture 2017. PMID: 28959120
Iribarren SJ, Brown W, Giguere R, Stone P, Schnall R, Staggers N, Carballo-Diéguez A. Scoping review and evaluation of SMS/text messaging platforms for mHealth projects or clinical interventions. Volume 101. International journal of medical informatics 2017. PMID: 28347445
Brown W.. Ontology-based Semantic Harmonization of HIV-associated Common Data Elements for Integration of Diverse HIV Research Datasets Ontology-based Semantic Harmonization of HIV-associated Common Data Elements for Integration of Diverse HIV Research Datasets 2016. PMID:
. Acceptability of a New Smartphone-based HIV and Syphilis Test to Screen Sexual Partners among High Risk MSM and Transgender Women AIDS research and human retroviruses 2016. PMID:
. Converging Self-reports, Product Returns, and Pharmacokinetic Results to Improve Adherence Measurement in MTN-017-a Phase 2 Rectal Microbicide Study AIDS research and human retroviruses 2016. PMID:
Brown W., Giguere, R., Sheinfil, A., Balán, I., Ibitoye, M., Ho, T., Lama, J., McGowan, I., Cranston, R., Carballo-Diéguez, A.. Feasibility and Acceptability of an International SMS Text Message-Based Adherence and Survey System in a Biomedical HIV Prevention Study (MTN-017) AIDS research and human retroviruses 2016. PMID:
Brown W, Carballo-Diéguez A, John RM, Schnall R. Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills of High-Risk Young Adults to Use the HIV Self-Test. Volume 20 of Issue 9. AIDS and behavior 2016. PMID: 26885813
Schnall R, Rojas M, Bakken S, Brown W, Carballo-Dieguez A, Carry M, Gelaude D, Mosley JP, Travers J. A user-centered model for designing consumer mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps). Volume 60. Journal of biomedical informatics 2016. PMID: 26903153
Schnall R, Bakken S, Brown Iii W, Carballo-Dieguez A, Iribarren S. Usabilty Evaluation of a Prototype Mobile App for Health Management for Persons Living with HIV. Volume 225. Studies in health technology and informatics 2016. PMID: 27332247
Aliabadi N, Carballo-Dieguez A, Bakken S, Rojas M, Brown W, Carry M, Mosley JP, Gelaude D, Schnall R. Using the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to Guide the Development of an HIV Prevention Smartphone Application for High-Risk MSM. Volume 27 of Issue 6. AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2015. PMID: 26595265
Schnall R, Mosley JP, Iribarren SJ, Bakken S, Carballo-Diéguez A, Brown Iii W. Comparison of a User-Centered Design, Self-Management App to Existing mHealth Apps for Persons Living With HIV. Volume 3 of Issue 3. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2015. PMID: 26385783
Brown Iii W, Ibitoye M, Bakken S, Schnall R, Balán I, Frasca T, Carballo-Diéguez A. Cartographic Analysis of Antennas and Towers: A Novel Approach to Improving the Implementation and Data Transmission of mHealth Tools on Mobile Networks. Volume 3 of Issue 2. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2015. PMID: 26043766
Schnall R, Higgins T, Brown W, Carballo-Dieguez A, Bakken S. Trust, Perceived Risk, Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness as Factors Related to mHealth Technology Use. Volume 216. Studies in health technology and informatics 2015. PMID: 26262094
Martinez O, Carballo-Diéguez A, Ibitoye M, Frasca T, Brown W, Balan I. Anticipated and actual reactions to receiving HIV positive results through self-testing among gay and bisexual men. Volume 18 of Issue 12. AIDS and behavior 2014. PMID: 24858480
Brown W, Liu C, John RM, Ford P. Developing an eBook-Integrated High-Fidelity Mobile App Prototype for Promoting Child Motor Skills and Taxonomically Assessing Children's Emotional Responses Using Face and Sound Topology. Volume 2014. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2014. PMID: 25954336
Schnall R, Rojas M, Travers J, Brown W, Bakken S. Use of Design Science for Informing the Development of a Mobile App for Persons Living with HIV. Volume 2014. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2014. PMID: 25954413
Arcia A, Bales ME, Brown W, Co MC, Gilmore M, Lee YJ, Park CS, Prey J, Velez M, Woollen J, Yoon S, Kukafka R, Merrill JA, Bakken S. Method for the development of data visualizations for community members with varying levels of health literacy. Volume 2013. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2013. PMID: 24551322
Brown W, Yen PY, Rojas M, Schnall R. Assessment of the Health IT Usability Evaluation Model (Health-ITUEM) for evaluating mobile health (mHealth) technology. Volume 46 of Issue 6. Journal of biomedical informatics 2013. PMID: 23973872
Brown W.. Double nigrescence: Toward a comprehensive model for homosexual African American men's racial identity resilience Double nigrescence: Toward a comprehensive model for homosexual African American men's racial identity resilience 2006. PMID:
William Brown III. Discrimination Dot Com: Racially biased interaction in the online gay male community McNair Scholar Journal of the University of California 2003. PMID:
Sands T, Tocchio C. Multiple dentigerous cysts in a child. Oral health 1998. PMID: 9667186