Julia Brown, PhD

Title(s)Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health & Aging
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    Australian National University, CanberraPhD2018Anthropology
    Australian National University, CanberraBSc/BA (Hons1)2012Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology

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    Dr. Julia Brown is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Fellow in the UCSF Bioethics Program and the UC Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. She is also affiliated with the Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine at UCSF and the Centre for Global Mental Health at University of California, San Diego. She is author of The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk conditions (Routledge 2022). She is currently conducting an “embedded ethics” ethnography on the emergence of prenatal gene therapies and the tensions around social inclusion for underrepresented communities. Dr. Brown is the Associate Editor of the journal Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Her broad research interests are the ethics of controversial biotechnology, health equity, and lived experiences of health and caregiving.

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    The Emergence of Prenatal Gene Therapy: An “Embedded Ethics” Ethnography investigating Clinical, Scientific and Societal Values
    NIH/NHGRI 1K99HG012379-01Jul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2027
    Role: PI
    Description: This K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence” Award tracks the emergence of fetal gene therapy, and it is designed to improve knowledge about the complex intersection between scientific, clinical, patient and societal values and longer-term health (in)equity. For the mentored portion, in-depth ethnographic observations (including interviews) will be augmented by 1) education in clinical genetics, genomics, and therapeutics, 2) methodological training in normative analysis, and 3) political science training in deliberative community engagement. The research examines immediate clinical and patient concerns, followed by community engagement with the public, to determine how fetal gene therapy is or is not socially inclusive – as a key step in ensuring attention to health equity goals in preventive precision medicine based on prenatal gene therapy.
    Machine Learning for interpreting rare variation in comprehensive newborn screening and pharmacogenetics
    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Intercampus Research Award May 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2022
    Role: Postdoc

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    1. Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency and Care. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2023; 1(10):1-17. Brown, JEH, D’Arcy, M, Myers, NL, & Ziv, T. View Publication.
    2. "I Have Fought for so Many Things": Disadvantaged families' Efforts to Obtain Community-Based Services for Their Child after Genomic Sequencing. AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2023 May 10; 1-10. Ackerman SL, Brown JEH, Zamora A, Outram S. PMID: 37162201.
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    3. The Stories We Tell or Omit​: How Ethnographic (In)Attention can Obscure Structural Racism in the Anthropology of Mental Healthcare. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2023; 1(10):1-15. Brown, JEH. View Publication.
    4. Privacy, bias and the clinical use of facial recognition technology: A survey of genetics professionals. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2023 Feb 07. Aboujaoude E, Light J, Brown JEH, Boscardin WJ, Hallgrímsson B, Klein OD. PMID: 36751120.
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    5. Psychiatric genomics, mental health equity, and intersectionality: A framework for research and practice. Front Psychiatry. 2022; 13:1061705. Brown JEH, Young JL, Martinez-Martin N. PMID: 36620660; PMCID: PMC9812559.
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    6. Functional genomics of OCTN2 variants informs protein-specific variant effect predictor for Carnitine Transporter Deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Nov 16; 119(46):e2210247119. Koleske ML, McInnes G, Brown JEH, Thomas N, Hutchinson K, Chin MY, Koehl A, Arkin MR, Schlessinger A, Gallagher RC, Song YS, Altman RB, Giacomini KM. PMID: 36343260; PMCID: PMC9674959.
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    7. The social value of genomic sequencing for disadvantaged families facing rare disease. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Dec; 314:115465. Outram SM, Brown J, Ackerman SL. PMID: 36279794.
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    8. Parental Hopes and Understandings of the Value of Prenatal Diagnostic Genomic Sequencing: A Qualitative Analysis. Front Genet. 2022; 13:883225. Outram SM, Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Ackerman SL. PMID: 35923691; PMCID: PMC9339950.
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    9. "Let's Just Wait Until She's Born": Temporal Factors That Shape Decision-Making for Prenatal Genomic Sequencing Amongst Families Underrepresented in Genomic Research. Front Genet. 2022; 13:882703. Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Outram S, Sparks TN, Lianoglou BR, Norstad M, Sahin Hodoglugil NN, Norton ME, Ackerman SL. PMID: 35669190; PMCID: PMC9164104.
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    10. The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions. 2022. Julia E. H. Brown. . View Publication.
    11. How Ought Decisions That Weigh on Life and Death Be Justly Informed and Governed to Benefit More than the Privileged Few with Access to a Trusted Clinician? Am J Bioeth. 2022 02; 22(2):1-3. Brown JEH, Koenig BA. PMID: 35089829.
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    12. Fetal therapies and trials for lysosomal storage diseases: a survey of attitudes of parents and patients. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2022 01 29; 17(1):25. Schwab ME, Brown JEH, Lianoglou B, Jin C, Conroy PC, Gallagher RC, Harmatz P, MacKenzie TC. PMID: 35093147; PMCID: PMC8800365.
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    13. Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Fetal Gene Therapy. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2021 12 01; 64(4):933-940. Brown JEH, Koenig BA. PMID: 34668890.
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    14. The difficulties of broad data sharing in genomic medicine: Empirical evidence from diverse participants in prenatal and pediatric clinical genomics research. Genet Med. 2022 02; 24(2):410-418. Norstad M, Outram S, Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Koenig BA, Risch N, Norton ME, Slavotinek A, Ackerman SL. PMID: 34906477.
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    15. AI chatbots cannot replace human interactions in the pursuit of more inclusive mental healthcare. Social Science & Medicine - Mental Health. 2021; (1). Brown, JEH. & Halpern, J. View Publication.
    16. Opportunities and challenges for the computational interpretation of rare variation in clinically important genes. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 04 01; 108(4):535-548. McInnes G, Sharo AG, Koleske ML, Brown JEH, Norstad M, Adhikari AN, Wang S, Brenner SE, Halpern J, Koenig BA, Magnus DC, Gallagher RC, Giacomini KM, Altman RB. PMID: 33798442; PMCID: PMC8059338.
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    17. The impact of public health palliative care interventions on health system outcomes: A systematic review. Palliat Med. 2021 03; 35(3):473-485. Collins A, Brown JEH, Mills J, Philip J. PMID: 33353507.
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    18. Relegating Psychosis: Blood Work and "Routine Connection" in the Clozapine Clinic. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2020 Jun; 44(2):263-285. Brown JEH. PMID: 31598807.
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    19. Can e-cigarettes improve the well-being of people with mental health disorders? Int J Drug Policy. 2019 11; 73:170-171. Brown JEH, Gartner C, Carter A. PMID: 31350106.
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    20. Raising Health Expectations for Schizophrenia Patients. Anthropology News. 2018; 59(5):e81-e86. Brown, JEH. View Publication.
    21. 'Doing things little by little': Smoking and vaping while being pharmaceutically treated for schizophrenia. Anthropological Forum. 2018; 28(2):158-170. Brown, JEH. View Publication.
    22. Actively Negotiating the Mind-Body Divide: How Clozapine-Treated Schizophrenia Patients Make Health for Themselves. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2017 Sep; 41(3):368-381. Brown JEH, Dennis S. PMID: 28074346.
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    23. Well-being in clozapine-treated schizophrenia patients: The significance of positive symptoms. Compr Psychiatry. 2016 07; 68:140-6. Brown JE, Mezquida G, Fernandez-Egea E. PMID: 27234195.
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