Tyler Steven Brown , MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine

Biography
Tyler Brown is an infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and Assistant Professor in the Section of Infectious Diseases. His scientific work uses phylogenomics, population genetics, and mathematical modeling to understand how microbial evolution, human host mobility, and other factors shape the transmission and geographic dispersal of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
Selected publications (full list available on the Publications tab of this profile):
Brown TS*, Tang L*, Omar SV, Joseph L, Meintjes G, Maartens G, Wasserman S, Shah NS, Farhat MR, Gandhi NR, Ismail N, Brust JCM, Mathema B. Genotype-Phenotype Characterization of Serial Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Bedaquiline-Resistant Tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 24. PMID: 37874928; DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciad596 (*co-first authors)
Brown TS, Robinson DA, Buckee CO, Mathema B. Connecting the dots: understanding how human mobility shapes TB epidemics. Trends Microbiol. 2022 Nov; 30(11):1036-1044. PMID: 35597716; PMCID: PMC10068677; DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.04.005
Brown TS, Arogbokun O, Buckee CO, Chang HH. Distinguishing gene flow between malaria parasite populations. PLoS Genet. 2021 Dec; 17(12):e1009335. PMID: 34928954; PMCID: PMC8726502; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009335
Brown TS, Eldholm V, Brynildsrud O, Osnes M, Levy N, Stimson J, Colijn C, Alexandru S, Noroc E, Ciobanu N, Crudu V, Cohen T, Mathema B. Evolution and emergence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chisinau, Moldova. Microb Genom. 2021 Aug; 7(8). PMID: 34431762; PMCID: PMC8549355; DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000620
Brown TS, Engø-Monsen K, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Maude RJ, Buckee CO. The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok. Epidemics. 2021 Jun; 35:100441. PMID: 33667878; PMCID: PMC7899011; DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100441
Brown TS, Challagundla L, Baugh EH, Omar SV, Mustaev A, Auld SC, Shah NS, Kreiswirth BN, Brust JCM, Nelson KN, Narechania A, Kurepina N, Mlisana K, Bonneau R, Eldholm V, Ismail N, Kolokotronis SO, Robinson DA, Gandhi NR, Mathema B. Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 12; 116(46):23284-23291. PMID: 31659018; PMCID: PMC6859317; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1906636116
Shah NS, Auld SC, Brust JC, Mathema B, Ismail N, Moodley P, Mlisana K, Allana S, Campbell A, Mthiyane T, Morris N, Mpangase P, van der Meulen H, Omar SV, Brown TS, Narechania A, Shaskina E, Kapwata T, Kreiswirth B, Gandhi NR. Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jan 19; 376(3):243-253. PMID: 28099825; PMCID: PMC5330208; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1604544
Education
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD
- Princeton University, AB
Classes Taught
Publications
- Published on 5/30/2024
Mohareb AM, Deukmejian M, Guerra Castillo C, Brown TS, LaRocque R, Taveras E, Sarin Gupta P. School-Based Mobile Clinics to Improve Vaccine Access: A Cross-sectional Study of COVID-19 Vaccination. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 May 30; 13(5):274-275. PMID: 38587478.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/17/2024
Brown TS, Tang L, Omar SV, Joseph L, Meintjes G, Maartens G, Wasserman S, Shah NS, Farhat MR, Gandhi NR, Ismail N, Brust JCM, Mathema B. Genotype-Phenotype Characterization of Serial Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Bedaquiline-Resistant Tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 17; 78(2):269-276. PMID: 37874928.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/3/2023
Mohareb AM, Brown TS. Medical Student Debt and the US Infectious Diseases Workforce. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 03; 76(7):1322-1327. PMID: 36318609.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/7/2023
Brown T, de Salazar Munoz PM, Bhatia A, Bunda B, Williams EK, Bor D, Miller JS, Mohareb A, Thierauf J, Yang W, Villalba J, Naranbai V, Garcia Beltran W, Miller TE, Kress D, Stelljes K, Johnson K, Larremore D, Lennerz J, Iafrate AJ, Balsari S, Buckee C, Grad Y. Geographically skewed recruitment and COVID-19 seroprevalence estimates: a cross-sectional serosurveillance study and mathematical modelling analysis. BMJ Open. 2023 Mar 07; 13(3):e061840. PMID: 36882240.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/18/2022
Brown TS, Robinson DA, Buckee CO, Mathema B. Connecting the dots: understanding how human mobility shapes TB epidemics. Trends Microbiol. 2022 Nov; 30(11):1036-1044. PMID: 35597716.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/20/2021
Brown TS, Arogbokun O, Buckee CO, Chang HH. Distinguishing gene flow between malaria parasite populations. PLoS Genet. 2021 Dec; 17(12):e1009335. PMID: 34928954.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/16/2021
Dugdale CM, Rubins DM, Lee H, McCluskey SM, Ryan ET, Kotton CN, Hurtado RM, Ciaranello AL, Barshak MB, McEvoy DS, Nelson SB, Basgoz N, Lazarus JE, Ivers LC, Reedy JL, Hysell KM, Lemieux JE, Heller HM, Dutta S, Albin JS, Brown TS, Miller AL, Calderwood SB, Walensky RP, Zachary KC, Hooper DC, Hyle EP, Shenoy ES. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Diagnostic Clinical Decision Support: A Pre-Post Implementation Study of CORAL (COvid Risk cALculator). Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 16; 73(12):2248-2256. PMID: 33564833.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/1/2021
Brown TS, Eldholm V, Brynildsrud O, Osnes M, Levy N, Stimson J, Colijn C, Alexandru S, Noroc E, Ciobanu N, Crudu V, Cohen T, Mathema B. Evolution and emergence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chisinau, Moldova. Microb Genom. 2021 Aug; 7(8). PMID: 34431762.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/22/2021
Salje H, Wesolowski A, Brown TS, Kiang MV, Berry IM, Lefrancq N, Fernandez S, Jarman RG, Ruchusatsawat K, Iamsirithaworn S, Vandepitte WP, Suntarattiwong P, Read JM, Klungthong C, Thaisomboonsuk B, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee C, Cauchemez S, Cummings DAT. Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences. Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 22; 12(1):1810. PMID: 33753725.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/22/2021
Brown TS, Engø-Monsen K, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Maude RJ, Buckee CO. The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok. Epidemics. 2021 Jun; 35:100441. PMID: 33667878.
Read at: PubMed
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