Charles C. Branas

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Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Epidemiologist
Senior Fellow
Senior Scholar
Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program
Core Faculty, Graduate Program in Public Health Studies
Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Scholar, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response
Faculty Associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Member, Penn Medicine Information Technology Systems Committee
Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory
Director, Firearm Usage and Safety Experimentss (FUSE) Laboratory
Member, Academic Advisory Committee
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Room 936 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: (215) 573-5381
Fax: (215) 573-2265
Email: cbranas@cceb.med.upenn.edu
Graduate Group Affiliations
Publications

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Education:
BA (Mathematics)
Franklin & Marshall College, 1990.
 MS (Emergency Medical Services)
Hahnemann University, 1993.
 PhD (Health and Public Policy)
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1997.
Links
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 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics faculty webpage.
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Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 1997-1999.
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Selected Publications

Wiebe, D. J. [Author, Reprint Author]; Branas, C. C. [Author]; Berlin, J. A. [Author]; Morgenstern, H. [Author].: Correcting for bias in case-control studies using non-population-based subjects as controls. American Journal of Epidemiology 159(11, Suppl. S): S54. June 2004.

 Richmond, Therese S. [Author]; Schwab, C. William [Author, Reprint Author; E-mail: schwabc@uphs.upenn.edu]; Riely, Jeaneen [Author]; Branas, Charles C. [Author]; Cheney, Rose [Author]; Dunfey, Maura [Author].: Effective trauma center partnerships to address firearm injury: A new paradigm. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care 56(6): 1197-1205. June 2004.

 Metlay, Joshua P. [Author, Reprint Author; E-mail: jmetlay@cceb.med.upenn.edu]; Branas, Charles C. [Author]; Fishman, Neil O. [Author].: Hospital-reported pneumococcal susceptibility to penicillin. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10(1): 54-59. January 2004.

 Metlay JP, Branas CC, Fishman NO: Small area variation in hospital reported rates of pneumococcal susceptibility to penicillin. New England Journal of Medicine 2003 Notes: under review.

 Branas CC, Nance ML, Elliott MR, Richmond TS, Schwab CW: Rural versus urban firearm death in the United States: different causes, same results. Journal of the American Medical Association 2003 Notes: under review.

 Richmond TS, Branas CC, Cheney RA, Schwab CW: The value of distinguishing handgun type in injury research. Journal of Trauma 2003 Notes: under review.

 Branas CC, Richmond TS, Schwab CW: The routine activity of homicide and suicide: opposite but equal. Public Health Reports 2003 Notes: under review.

 Ness RB., Bondy ML., Branas C., Camargo CA Jr., Rothenberg R., Samet JM., Sandler DP., Swanson GM., Strom BL.: Dissent is a cornerstone of scientific discourse. Annals of Epidemiology 13(9): 597-8, Oct 2003.

 Nance, Michael L. [Author, Reprint Author; E-mail: nance@email.chop.edu]; Branas, Charles C. [Author]; Stafford, Perry W. [Author]; Richmond, Therese [Author]; Schwab, C. William [Author].: Nonintracranial fatal firearm injuries in children: Implications for treatment. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care 55(4): 631-635. October 2003.

 Branas CC, Scheffler RM: Value among health maintenance organizations. American Journal of Managed Care 2002 Notes: in press.
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