Kenneth G. Brown

Registered as a small business (DUNS #789253981) and licensed in Chapel Hill, NC

Contact

511 Palafox Dr.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
kbinc@mindspring.com
919 960-3619

Bio

Kenneth Brown has 28 years of experience in quantitative risk assessment, the last 20 as a self-employed consultant/contractor to government agencies and the private sector. His work has focused on methods and applications of hazard identification and dose-response analysis, culminating in a written report and often publication. He has conducted diverse projects, such as meta-analysis of the evidence from multiple studies of lung cancer risk from secondhand smoke for EPA, evaluation and comparison of respirator effectiveness from multiple studies for OSHA, preparation and presentation of two courses on quantitative methods for toxicologists including an EPA-sponsored one-day workshop on concentration-time response modeling and concentration-time relationships using its CatReg software (see www.catregworkshop.com ). Brown has published widely in refereed journals and conference proceedings, co-authored two EPA documents and one NRC report, made numerous presentations at professional meetings and conferences (several invited), and served on several committees and panels.

Education

• Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. Statistics. 1973. (NSF traineeship)

• M.A. American University. Statistics. 1969.

• B.A. Duke University. Mathematics. 1962. (Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Kapp Scholar)

Experience

• 1974-1982. University of Maine. Assistant Professor and then tenured Associate Professor. (mathematics and statistics)

• 1979-1985. NIEHS, risk assessment division, initially on leave from the University of Maine, then employed by an on-site contractor

• 1986. Research Triangle Institute. Engaged in quantitative risk assessment

• 1987- present Self-employed in quantitative risk assessment and data analysis

Selected Committees and Panels (past and present)

• American Chemistry Council, Risk Assessment Methods Technical Implementation Panel (review grant proposals)

• American Council on Science and Health, Board of Scientific and Policy Advisors

• American Water Works Association Research Foundation, Policy Advisory Committee (exposure assessment on existing cancer studies)

• Risk Management Council, Inter-Agency Federal Subcommittee (formaldehyde)

• National Research Council, Committee of Toxicology, Subcommittee (arsenic in drinking water)

• Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Arsenic Task Force

• USEPA, Science Advisory Board, Environmental Health Committee (ad hoc member, butadiene)

• USEPA, committees to review draft documents (guidelines for mixtures, computer program documentation of CatReg and grant proposals (particulate matter, air quality, epidemiology, human health risk assessment)

Previous Clients (U.S. EPA largest by far)

• American Automobile Manufacturers Association

• American Chemistry Council

• American Council on Science and Health

• American Petroleum Institute

• American Water Works Association

• Atlantic Richfield Company

• Attorneys (several)

• Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Electric Power and Research Institute

• Rio Tinto

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• U.S. Office of Safety and Health Administration

• Wood Preservative Science Council

Publications and reports - summary of topics

• Risk assessment applications (animal and epidemiological studies) (21)

• Risk assessment methods (8)

• Workplace-related studies (3)

• Exposure assessment (2)

• Simulation/sensitivity analysis (3)

• Topic reviews (6)

• Technical reviews (3+)

• General statistical theory and methods (10)

• Other (4)

Publications and reports - summary of sources

Refereed publications:

• Environmental Health Perspectives (3)

• Fundamental and Applied Toxicology (3)

• Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (4)

• Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (3)

• Risk Analysis (3)

• Radiation Research

• Annals of Statistics (2)

• Communications in Statistics

• International Journal of Mathematical Education and Science Technology

• Journal of American Statistical Association (4)

• Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Edited publications:

• Health Effects of Particulate Matter in Ambient Air

• International Conferences on Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects (4)

• Journal of the American Water Works Association

• NRC/NAS (arsenic in drinking water)

• Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities

• Risk: Health, Safety & Environment

• Proceedings of the American Statistical Society, Statistics and the Environment

• Trace Substances, Environment and Health

• US EPA documents (2)

• Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (2)

• Variance Components and Animal Breeding -- Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of C. R. Henderson

Unpublished reports and technical reviews: (approx. 15)