Kimberly BrouwerView profile
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Kimberly Brouwer is a Professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Education & Student Affairs. Her research focuses on mobility, marginalization, and environmental/structural factors influencing infectious disease transmission and healthcare access. Notable projects include integrating smoking cessation into HIV care (funded by TRDRP), Chagas disease prevalence studies in San Diego, and HIV prevention among migrant populations at Mexico-US borders. Education: BA from UC Berkeley (Integrative Biology), PhD from Johns Hopkins University (Molecular Epidemiology), and a CDC fellowship in Emerging Infectious Diseases. She has held NIH K01 funding for spatial/social epidemiology training and a Fulbright Fellowship in Zimbabwe. Research interests span HIV/AIDS, substance use, vector-borne diseases, and spatial epidemiology. She teaches Epidemiology 101 and Infectious Diseases & Emerging Trends. Awards include the K01 Career Award and Fulbright Fellowship. Key collaborations include work with TRDRP, CDC, and international health stakeholders. Her publications address sex work environments, migrant health, and pandemic responses (e.g., social determinants of COVID-19 mortality).







