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Brandon Osborn, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Brandon Osborn is the Principal of Lucimos LLC. Dr. Osborn joined AMTC in 2019 and provides expertise and guidance in research and statistics. At AMTC, he has been involved in the evaluation of 71 federally funded programs and has served as the lead evaluator or principal investigator for 10 of them. He oversees and manages the research arm of AMTC and is responsible for designing research and evaluation studies, training, data analysis, reporting, implementation, and evaluation.

Trained as a social epidemiologist and implementation scientist, Dr. Osborn has over a decade of experience in research designing, implementing, and evaluating a variety of social services and health-related programs. He was previously a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he was nationally recognized and selected as a fellow of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard. He previously worked at the Center for Health Equity Research in California where he helped evaluate place-based interventions aimed at addressing health disparities. He also assisted with the evaluation of Department of Justice (DOJ)-funded projects aimed at decreasing gang involvement and human trafficking among at-risk youth. Dr. Osborn coordinated and evaluated a mobile food pantry and a healthcare workforce development program at a federally qualified health center. He also served as the health education coordinator for the Orange County Transitions in Health Program, during which he developed a health and resource education curriculum for inmates pending release from jail. Dr. Osborn has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public health at the University of California.

Osborn received his Ph.D. in Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. He served as chief fellow and completed a postdoctoral fellowship, funded by a National Institutes of Health national research service award, in the School of Medicine—Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado—Anschutz Medical Campus. He earned a Bachelor of Science in health science from California State University, Long Beach. He has also received formal training in research ethics and responsible conduct for research, science communication, and data science. He is an active member of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) and AcademyHealth. He also is a journal reviewer for multiple scientific journals.

Expertise

  • Population Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Program Evaluation
  • Health Behavior
  • Research Methods
  • Health Disparities

Skills

  • Research and Evaluation Design
  • Project Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Statistical Processing Software (Stata, R)
  • Science Communication
  • Data Management and Documentation
  • Grant Writing