Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Dr. Meredith Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). She has an MPH in Urban Health, a PhD in Population Health, post-doctoral training in Tuberculosis Epidemiology, a post-graduate certificate in Implementation Science, and is currently a Fellow of John’s Hopkins University’s HIV/Implementation Science Training Program. Dr. Brooks is a core member of the Tuberculosis Interdisciplinary Approach to Research Alliance and co-chair of the Tuberculosis Interest Group, both out of Boston University Medical Campus, a member of the Tuberculosis Modeling Group and Infectious Disease Modeling Group at BUSPH, and a core member of the Boston/Providence Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Implementation Science/HIV Scientific Working Group. She also serves as Chair of the Faculty Senate at BUSPH. Dr. Brooks is the PI of an Early Career Development Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K01AI151083), using genomic and spatial data to elucidate tuberculosis transmission dynamics among youth and modeling the impact of youth-tailored interventions community-based transmission. She is PI of a CFAR Initial AIDS Developmental Award evaluating the intersection of HIV, anemia, and tuberculosis treatment in children in South Africa, a Strategic Direction Spark Award evaluating lung function and quality of life in children post-tuberculosis treatment, a Carlin Foundation Award for Public Health Innovation, and a co-Investigator on awards from Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Charles H. Hood Foundation, and an R01 from the National Institute of Nursing Research which aims to use a Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to improve tuberculosis care in South Africa. Dr. Brooks also won the Dean’s Innovation Challenge at BUSPH for her work on CAMP-TB, which co-designed a web-based App to improve the efficiency of mobile tuberculosis screening in Peru, and subsequently evaluated acceptability, usability, and effectiveness. Dr. Brooks has a global research portfolio, with research partners in the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, among other settings. Her research focuses on integrating implementation strategies into routine tuberculosis care to optimize completion of the tuberculosis care cascade. Dr. Brooks often utilizes care cascade analysis, stakeholder and process mapping, community engagement strategies, and systems engineering tools in her work, and has experience using the RE-AIM framework, Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (ORIC), Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM), and Proctor’s taxonomy of implementation outcomes, to name a few.