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Biosketch:
Charles C. Branas, PhD
Dr.
Branas holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department
of Biostatistics and Epidemiology & Assistant Professor for the Center
for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is co-director for the Cartographic Modeling
Laboratory. Before coming to Penn, Dr. Branas trained and conducted research
work at both the Johns Hopkins University and the University of California,
Berkeley Schools of Public Health. As a former emergency medical services
provider, he has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, two federally
funded Injury Control Research Centers, and a federally funded Institute
for Transportation Studies. Dr. Branas's methodological interests combine
aspects of health policy, operations research, and epidemiology. His research
interests include emergency health systems and injury prevention. As a
native of the Philadelphia area, much of Dr. Branas's research focuses
on improving the health of the local community. This research most prominently
includes a National Institutes of Health-funded study of alcohol outlets
and firearm violence in the City of Philadelphia. Dr. Branas's current
research is also national in scope, including a multi-state study of trauma
centers and emergency medical services funded by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality. He is a peer reviewer for numerous publications
including the American Journal of Public Health and the American Journal
of Epidemiology and is a member of the American College of Epidemiology,
the Association for Health Services Research, the American Public Health
Association, the Pennsylvania Public Health Association, and the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Dennis
Culhane, PhD
Dr. Culhane holds the positions Professor of Social Welfare Policy, School
of Social Work and Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry for School of Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-director for the Cartographic
Modeling Laboratory. Dr Culhane's primary area of research is homelessness
and housing distress. His current work includes studies of the impact of
homelessness and supportive housing on the utilization of publicly funded
health and human services in New York City. His recent research includes
a study of the rates of homelessness by various subpopulations in eight
US cities. Dr. Culhane's recent publications include studies of the housing
and neighborhood factors related to the distribution of homeless persons'
prior addresses in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Dr. Culhane
is currently leading an effort to integrate property, neighborhood, and
human services data from Philadelphia into several web-based geographic
information system applications to support policy analysis, program planning
and evaluation.
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