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Benjamin H. Brown

Benjamin H. Brown

· Assistant Professor (Clinical)

University of Utah · Family & Preventive Medicine

Active 1948–2025

h-index50
Citations8.5k
Papers18313 last 5y
Funding$2.8M

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Benjamin H. Brown, MD, MPH, is a board-certified family medicine physician affiliated with the University of Utah Health. He received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Utah State University and attended medical school at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. Following his medical training, he earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, focusing on social and behavioral health. Dr. Brown completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Utah. His professional interests include immigrant health, health disparities, and disease prevention. He divides his time between clinical practice and research within the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, emphasizing holistic, patient-centered care. His approach incorporates mindfulness and lifestyle strategies aimed at improving health outcomes.

Research topics

  • Political Science
  • Computer Science
  • Sociology
  • Medicine
  • Computer Security
  • Demography
  • Environmental health
  • Geography
  • Statistics
  • Socioeconomics

Selected publications

  • Active Transportation on a Complete Street: Perceived and Audited Walkability Correlates

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2017-09-05 · 69 citations

    articleOpen accessCorresponding

    Few studies of walkability include both perceived and audited walkability measures. We examined perceived walkability (Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale—Abbreviated, NEWS-A) and audited walkability (Irvine–Minnesota Inventory, IMI) measures for residents living within 2 km of a “complete street”—one renovated with light rail, bike lanes, and sidewalks. For perceived walkability, we found some differences but substantial similarity between our final scales and those in a prior published…

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  • Policy and Environmental Predictors of Park Visits During the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Getting Out While Staying in

    Environment and Behavior · 2021 · 55 citations

    Senior authorCorresponding

    The COVID-19 pandemic may have altered visitation patterns to parks, with potential effects on human health. Little is known about park use early in the pandemic, how park availability influenced use, and whether park visits accelerated COVID-19 spread. Using weekly cell phone location data for 620 U.S. counties, we show park visits decreased by an average 26% between March 15 and May 9, 2020. Net of weekly trends, park visits were 2.2% lower when stay-at-home orders were in effect, yet increase…

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  • Walkable neighborhoods and obesity: Evaluating effects with a propensity score approach

    SSM - Population Health · 2017-12-08 · 52 citations

    articleOpen access

    BACKGROUND: Research investigating the connection between neighborhood walkability and obesity often overlooks the issue of nonrandom residential selection. METHODS: We use propensity score methods to adjust for the nonrandom selection into residential neighborhoods in this cross-sectional, observational study. The sample includes 103,912 women residing in Salt Lake County, Utah age 20 or older. We measured percentage living in neighborhoods with more walkability, area level measures of neighbor…

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  • Walkability, complete streets, and gender: Who benefits most?

    Health & Place · 2017-11-01 · 51 citations

    articleOpen accessCorresponding
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  • Winter bird-window collisions: mitigation success, risk factors, and implementation challenges

    PeerJ · 2019-09-02 · 29 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    Millions of birds die in bird-window collisions in the United States each year. In specialized test settings, researchers have developed methods to alter window designs to mitigate collisions. However, few published studies provide pretest and posttest evaluations of mitigation treatment areas and untreated control areas on existing buildings. We initially monitored bird-window collisions at a single building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, during winter 1 (Novembe…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Ken R. Smith

    83 shared

  • Carol M. Werner

    51 shared

  • Lori Kowaleski‐Jones

    University of Utah

    26 shared

  • Harvey J. Miller

    The Ohio State University

    23 shared

  • Calvin P. Tribby

    Beckman Research Institute

    22 shared

  • Cathleen D. Zick

    University of Utah

    22 shared

  • Jessie X. Fan

    University of Utah

    18 shared

  • Wyatt A. Jensen

    Utah Department of Health

    18 shared

Education

  • B.S., Biochemistry

    Utah State University

  • M.D.

    University of Vermont

  • Other, social and behavioral health

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Other, Family Medicine

    University of Utah

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