Charles C. Branas || Center for Public Health Initiatives

Charles C. Branas

Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania

Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennyslvania

Director, Global Health Program in Guatemala, University of Pennsylvania

Associate Fellow, Center for Health Behavior Research

Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Contact information

Email:
cbranas@upenn.edu

Graduate Group Affiliations

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Education:
BA (Mathematics)
Franklin and Marshall College, 1990.
MS (Emergency Medical Services)
Hahnemann University, 1993.
PhD (Public Health)
Johns Hopkins University, 1997.

Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, 1998-2000.

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Selected Publications

Gracia JN, Rubin D, Guo W, Branas CC.: Vacant properties and the risk of aggravated assault in neighborhoods. Injury Prevention in press, 2011.

Ward MJ, Shutter LA, Branas CC, Adeoye O, Albright KC, Carr BG: Geographic access to neurocritical care units in the United States. Neurocritical Care Page: 11-19, 2011.

Meisel ZF, Pines J, Polsky D, Metlay J, Neuman M, Branas CC: Variations in Ambulance Use in the United States: the Role of Health Insurance. Academic Emergency Medicine 18: 1-9, 2011.

Myers SR, Branas CC, Kallan MJ, Wiebe DJ, Nance ML, Carr BG: The use of home location to proxy injury location and implications for regionalized trauma system planning. Journal of Trauma in press, 2011.

Carr BG, Reilly PM, Schwab CW, Branas CC, Geiger J, Wiebe DJ: Weekend and night outcomes in a statewide trauma system. Archives of Surgery 146(7): 810-817, 2011.

Branas CC, Richmond TS, Ten Have TR, Wiebe DJ: Acute alcohol consumption, alcohol outlets, and gun suicide. Substance Use & Misuse 46(13): 1592-1603, 2011.

Galetta KM, Barrett J, Allen M, Madda F, Delicata D, Tennant TA, Branas CC, Maguire MG, Messner LV, Devick S, Galetta SL, Balcer LJ : The King-Devick Test as a determinant of head trauma and concussion in boxers and MMA fighters. Neurology 2: 1-10, 2011.

Branas CC, Cheney RA, MacDonald JM, Tam VW, Jackson TD, Ten Have TR: A difference-in-differences analysis of health, safety, and greening vacant urban space. American Journal of Epidemiology 174: 1-11, 2011.

Carr BG, Jenkins P, Branas CC, Wiebe DJ, Kim P, Schwab CW, Reilly PM: Does the Trauma System Protect Against The Weekend Effect? Journal of Trauma 69(5): 1042-1047, 2010.

Carr BG, Porat G, Wiebe DJ, Branas CC: A review of legislation restricting the intersection of firearms and alcohol in the US. Public Health Reports 125(5): 674-679, 2010.