Dr. Brown is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on reproductive and sexual health and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV.  She is an Assistant Professor-In-Residence at the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health.  For the past 10 years, Dr. Brown has collaborated on the development and implementation of a range of international STI/HIV research and intervention projects in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Thailand, and in the United States.    Dr. Brown is currently the Principal Investigator of a California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP)-funded study measuring the effect of vaginal and rectal practices and product use on health and the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections among a cohort of ethnically diverse women in Los Angeles.  In addition, Dr. Brown is a co-Investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded phase I microbicide study among young women in San Francisco, USA and Kisumu, Kenya, a co-Investigator within the CHRP-funded Network for AIDS Research in Los Angeles (NARLA), and an Investigator within the NIH-funded Microbicide Development Program (MDP) at UCLA.   Dr. Brown trained at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of California, San Francisco.