Brown, David

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biography

  • David R. Brown, MD, FAAFP, is a family physician and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. His research addresses health disparities, the social determinants of health, primary care, and medical education. He uses community-engaged, participatory, qualitative, and mixed methods.

    His current research centers on FIU Thrive, an assessment of health-related social needs in 12 areas, such as food, housing, transportation, and money. FIU Thrive is designed as a mobile health application that assesses these needs and connects household members to services. With funding from the Florida Department of Health, his team built an early prototype and pilot tested the assessment. The assessment also measures polysocial risk, the combined burden of several social risks in one person’s life. FIU studies of HIV and of genomics have adopted these measures.

    In medical education, Dr. Brown studies how schools decide that students are ready for residency. In the AAMC Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency Pilot (2014 to 2021), he chaired the Entrustment Concept Group, led the workgroup on interprofessional collaboration, co-edited the 13 toolkits that the pilot published, and led the evaluation of its entrustment process outcomes across schools. He directs the Family Medicine Clerkship and a four-year curriculum in motivational interviewing. He was the founding director of the Family Medicine Residency at West Kendall Baptist Hospital (2011 to 2015) and Interim Designated Institutional Official for the college (2024 to 2025).

    Dr. Brown joined FIU in 2009 and is one of the early architects of the Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP program. In this program, interprofessional student teams and mobile health centers serve households in partnership with more than 150 community organizations. He provides primary care in English and Spanish on the program’s mobile health center. His earlier work includes participatory research with residents of Overtown, a historically Black neighborhood of Miami, and a community nutrition project there, the Overtown Cookbook.

    He chairs the Community Advisory Board of the FIU Center for Genomic Research and chaired the Community Advisory Board of FIU’s RADx-UP study. He received the FIU Faculty Senate Excellence in Engagement Award in 2024. He welcomes collaboration on research in social needs and health, primary care, digital health, and medical education.

research interests

  • - Social determinants of health
    - Health-related social needs
    - Community-engaged and participatory research
    - Mobile health (mHealth) and digital health
    - Primary care and family medicine
    - Health disparities
    - Household-centered care
    - Spatial epidemiology
    - Qualitative and mixed methods
    - Competency-based medical education
    - Entrustable professional activities
    - Interprofessional education
    - Service-learning

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