Clayton Brown
· Professor of Radio-TV-FilmNorthwestern University · Radio/Television/Film
Active 1950–2025
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About
Clayton Brown is a documentary and narrative filmmaker interested in exploring the stories that emerge when people pursuing their passions collide with the practicalities and realities of American culture, politics, and society. His work includes several documentary features, such as The Atom Smashers, about America’s search for the Higgs boson, which won the Pariscience Audacity award and was broadcast on Independent Lens; The Believers, about the controversial 1989 announcement of Cold Fusion, which won the Gold Hugo for Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Maryland International Film Festival; and We Believe in Dinosaurs, about the building of a life-sized Noah’s Ark by the Creation Museum in Kentucky, which premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the St. Louis International Film Festival, and has a 91% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. His documentary work has been covered in various media outlets and has been screened at numerous festivals. Brown is in production on two new documentary features, Duneland and We The People Ride, focusing on environmental issues in East Chicago and stories along the US/Mexico border, respectively. His fiction work includes science fiction, supernatural, and historical science themes, with films such as Galileo’s Grave and Pere Marquette, which involves practical and digital special effects.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Political Science
- Internal medicine
- Clinical psychology
- Gynecology
- Medical education
- Geography
Selected publications
Implementation Science · 2020 · 82 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingBACKGROUND: Enhancing the sustainability of evidence-based prevention programs for mental and behavioral health requires tools for measuring both sustainability determinants and sustainment outcomes. The aim of this study was to develop the Sustainment Measurement System Scale (SMSS) and to assess its reliability and construct validity for measuring both determinants and outcomes of efforts to sustain prevention programs and initiatives. METHODS: A 42-item scale comprised of items identified fro…
Parenting Interventions in Pediatric Primary Care: A Systematic Review
PEDIATRICS · 2020 · 64 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingCONTEXT: More than 4 decades of research indicate that parenting interventions are effective at preventing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Pediatric primary care is a viable setting for delivery of these interventions. OBJECTIVE: Previous meta-analyses have shown that behavioral interventions in primary care can improve clinical outcomes, but few reviews have been focused specifically on the implementation of parenting interventions in primar…
Schizophrenia Bulletin · 2022 · 23 citations
To examine long-term effects of early intervention services (EIS) for first-episode psychosis, we compared Heinrichs-Carpenter Quality of Life (QLS) and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) scores and inpatient hospitalization days over 5 years with data from the site-randomized RAISE-ETP trial that compared the EIS NAVIGATE (17 sites; 223 participants) and community care (CC) (17 sites; 181 participants). Inclusion criteria were: age 15-40 years; DSM-IV diagnoses of schizophrenia, schiz…
Utilization of genetic testing in men with advanced prostate cancer
The Prostate · 2023 · 19 citations
BACKGROUND: Genetic evaluation of men with advanced prostate cancer is recognized as imperative both to guide treatment decisions and to trigger cascade genetic testing of family members. Here we investigate utilization patterns of genetic testing among a contemporary cohort of men with advanced prostate cancer at our institution. METHODS: We queried the Northwestern Electronic Data Warehouse from January 2021 to present for all men diagnosed with National Comprehensive Cancer Network high-risk/…
US payment policy for medications to treat opioid use disorder: landscape and opportunities
Health Affairs Scholar · 2024-02-27 · 13 citations
articleOpen accessAbstract Offering patients medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is the standard of care for opioid use disorder (OUD), but an estimated 75%–90% of people with OUD who could benefit from MOUD do not receive medication. Payment policy, defined as public and private payers’ approaches to covering and reimbursing providers for MOUD, is 1 contributor to this treatment gap. We conducted a policy analysis and qualitative interviews (n = 21) and surveys (n = 31) with US MOUD payment policy experts…
Recent grants
NIH · $10.0M · 2016
NIH · $22.3M · 2022–2027
HD2A Research Adoption Support Center (RASC)
NIH · $25.7M · 2022–2027
Frequent coauthors
- 1100 shared
Christopher J. Gordon
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
- 996 shared
K. Robinson
University of Nottingham
- 796 shared
Helen M. Dewey
University of Melbourne
- 792 shared
Julie Bernhardt
University of Melbourne
- 784 shared
L. D. Smith
UCL Biomedical Research Centre
- 776 shared
C Charnley
Western Health
- 776 shared
David James
University of Nottingham
- 776 shared
Nick Wilson
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Education
- 1983
Ph D, Statistics
University of Chicago
Awards & honors
- Pariscience Audacity award
- Gold Hugo for Best Documentary at the Chicago International…
- Best Documentary at the Maryland International Film Festival
- Chicago IFP Production Fund
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