brushb

Dr. Brush is a former Board Member of the Detroit Urban Community-Academic Research Center (Detroit URC), a former Associate Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program, and past faculty Director of the Public Partners and Community-Based Organization section of the Michigan Institute of Health and Clinical Research (MICHR). A content expert in homelessness and health, she served on a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee between 2016 and 2018 examining evidence linking health and permanent supportive housing (PSH) in persons experiencing homelessness across the United States. Her research with families at risk for or experiencing homelessness in Detroit uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in designing, implementing, and evaluating best practices needed to provide health and social services and inform health policy decisions that influence resource allocation to this underserved cohort. Dr. Brush was also a Co-Principal Investigator of a 6-year NIH-funded study (“Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success” RO1NR016123-01A1; 2016-2022) that developed and validated an instrument to measure success in long-standing community-academic research partnerships, Co-PI of the Participatory Action for Access to Clinical Trials (PAACT) study, funded by Genentech (2020-2022), which used a CBPR approach to understand Black Detroiters’ behavioral intentions to participate in cancer clinical research trials, and Co-investigator on a current RO3 examining occupational health in nail salon workers. These studies have the potential to reduce health inequalities and improve health outcomes in vulnerable communities with higher morbidity and mortality burden. Dr. Brush has published and presented extensively in these areas.