Paul Brown

Paul Brown is a Professor of Public Health at the University of California Merced. His research focuses on environmental health, stroke epidemiology, agricultural worker health, and behavioral economics. He has conducted extensive studies in California and New Zealand, addressing air pollution impacts, emergency department utilization, and healthcare policy.

Research interests include public health policy evaluation, disease burden analysis, and telehealth applications. Notable work includes the Auckland Regional Community Stroke Studies (ARCOS) series tracking stroke trends across decades, as well as studies on farmworker health in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Key themes in his recent articles (2023-2025) include air pollution mitigation policies, stroke prevention strategies, and behavioral economics interventions to promote healthier choices. His work bridges clinical data with economic and policy analyses, emphasizing societal and environmental determinants of health outcomes.

Dr. Brown has collaborated on studies involving emergency department data linkage, discrete choice experiments for health policy design, and cost-benefit analyses of public health interventions. His research often highlights disparities in healthcare access and outcomes for vulnerable populations such as farmworkers and communities with high environmental pollution exposure.