South Carolina Department of Health & Env Control
Bureau of Disease Control
1751 Calhoun Street
Columbia,
SC
USA
29201
Email:
ebrenner@rocketmail.com
Biographical Sketch:
-- BA French Literature, University of California at Berkeley, 1966
-- Peace Corps, Ivory Coast, 1966-68
-- MD Dartmouth Medical School, 1973
-- Board Certification in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease
-- 1976-1985: Medical Officer CDC; Assignments with State HD as well as at CDC HQ (TB Control Division)
-- 1985-86: Medical Epidemiologist, Expanded Programme on Immunization, WHO Geneva (Switzerland)
-- 1986-1989: Faculty at University of Geneva School of Medicine
--1990-present: Medical epidemiologist, Bureau of Disease Control, South Carolina Dept of Health; Faculty appointments at USC School of Public Health (Courses in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Emerging Infectious Diseases etc.) and with MPH program, University of Geneva
-- Numerous consultantcies for WHO, UNICEF, USAID and other organizations
-- Frequent presenter at professional meetings
-- Professional focus on application of biomedical knowledge , epidemiological concepts, biostatistical methods, and computer tools to communicable disease control programs.
-- Special interest in use of simple appropriate public domain software in a variety of US and international public health settings, including their use for AVR of data extracted from PHIN compliant systems such as the NEDSS Base System (NBS) and TIMS.