Dr. Kimberly Brouwer

Biography

Kimberly Brouwer is a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego. She holds a BA in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Molecular Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on applying qualitative and quantitative methods to tackle public health challenges, specifically the impact of mobility and marginalization on the transmission of infectious diseases. Dr. Brouwer's current work includes collaborating with care providers and community stakeholders to integrate smoking cessation into HIV care, funded by California's Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She is also involved in research on vector-borne tropical infectious diseases, including a study on Chagas disease prevalence in San Diego County. As a Fulbright Fellow, she investigated factors affecting disease severity in schistosomiasis in Zimbabwe. Before joining UCSD, she was a fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she researched HIV/malaria interactions in western Kenya. Dr. Brouwer has received multiple accolades, including the K01 Career Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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