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Ross C. Brownson is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions with extensive work in general health professions and public health, environmental, and occupational health. They have also contributed to related subfields including economics and econometrics, physiology, and transportation.

Their scholarship encompasses main topics such as health policy implementation science, public health policies and education, primary care and health outcomes, community health and development, obesity, physical activity, and diet, urban transport and accessibility, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Brownson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including James F. Sallis, Peg Allen, Matthew L. Boulton, Robert B. Wallace, and Patrick Remington, indicating a sustained engagement in team-based research.

Key publication venues for their work include the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Implementation Science Communications, Implementation Science, UNC Libraries, and Research Square. These outlets reflect a concentration in public health and implementation science research.

Among recent papers authored by Brownson are:

  • Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity (2021, Implementation Science)
  • Revisiting concepts of evidence in implementation science (2022, Implementation Science)

Other recent influential papers linked with their research domain, although not authored by Brownson themselves, include works by other researchers such as Bethany M. Kwan and Laura Ellen Ashcraft, which further illustrate the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of this field.

Best Publications

  • The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity. A systematic review.

    Emily B Kahn;Leigh T Ramsey;Ross C Brownson;Gregory W Heath

  • Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking

    Michael Alavanja;John A. Baron;Ross C. Brownson;Patricia A. Buffler

  • Measuring the Built Environment for Physical Activity: State of the Science

    Ross C. Brownson;Christine M. Hoehner;Kristen Day;Ann Forsyth

  • Bridging research and practice: models for dissemination and implementation research.

    Rachel G. Tabak;Elaine C. Khoong;David A. Chambers;Ross C. Brownson

  • Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world

    Gregory W Heath;Diana C Parra;Olga L Sarmiento;Lars Bo Andersen;Lars Bo Andersen

  • Environmental and Policy Determinants of Physical Activity in the United States

    Ross C. Brownson;Elizabeth A. Baker;Robyn A. Housemann;Laura K. Brennan

  • DECLINING RATES OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES: What Are the Contributors?

    Ross C. Brownson;Tegan K. Boehmer;Douglas A. Luke

  • Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice

    Ross C. Brownson;Jonathan E. Fielding;Christopher M. Maylahn

  • Perceived and objective environmental measures and physical activity among urban adults.

    Christine M. Hoehner;Laura K. Brennan Ramirez;Michael B. Elliott;Susan L. Handy

  • Personal and environmental factors associated with physical inactivity among different racial-ethnic groups of U.S. middle-aged and older-aged women.

    Abby C. King;Cynthia Castro;Sara Wilcox;Amy A. Eyler

  • Dissemination and implementation research in health : translating science to practice

    Ross C. Brownson;Graham A. Colditz;Enola Knisley Proctor

  • Determinants of leisure time physical activity in rural compared with urban older and ethnically diverse women in the United States

    Sara Wilcox;Cynthia Castro;Abby C King;Robyn Housemann

  • Differential correlates of physical activity in urban and rural adults of various socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States

    S. E. Parks;R. A. Housemann;Ross C. Brownson

  • The Effectiveness of Urban Design and Land Use and Transport Policies and Practices to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review

    Gregory W. Heath;Ross C. Brownson;Judy Kruger;Rebecca Miles

  • Understanding Evidence-Based Public Health Policy

    Ross C. Brownson;Jamie F. Chriqui;Katherine A. Stamatakis

  • Scaling up physical activity interventions worldwide: stepping up to larger and smarter approaches to get people moving

    Rodrigo S Reis;Rodrigo S Reis;Deborah Salvo;David Ogilvie;Estelle V Lambert

  • Identifying and Measuring Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability

    Reid Ewing;Susan L. Handy;Ross C. Brownson;Otto Clemente

  • Multilevel modelling of built environment characteristics related to neighbourhood walking activity in older adults

    Fuzhong Li;K John Fisher;Ross C Brownson;Mark Bosworth

  • Dissemination and Implementation Research in HealthTranslating Science to Practice

    Ross C. Brownson;Graham A. Colditz;Enola K. Proctor

  • Differential correlates of physical activity in urban and rural adults of various socioeconomic backgrounds in the

    S E Parks;R A Housemann;R C Brownson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy A. Eyler
Amy A. Eyler Washington University in St. Louis
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth A. Baker
Elizabeth A. Baker Saint Louis University
Diana C. Parra
Diana C. Parra Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Pratt
Michael Pratt University of California, San Diego
Enola K. Proctor
Enola K. Proctor Washington University in St. Louis
Michael C. R. Alavanja
Michael C. R. Alavanja National Institutes of Health
Pedro Curi Hallal
Pedro Curi Hallal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew W. Kreuter
Matthew W. Kreuter Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Chambers
David A. Chambers National Institutes of Health

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