Dr Clive Brown

Dr Clive M. Brown, MBBS, MPH, MSc, DTM&H, has been with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 20 years; currently as the Chief for the Quarantine and Border Health Services in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine and prior to that as Associate Director for Science in that Division.

Dr Clive M. Brown obtained his medical degree from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and completed clinical training at the Cornwall Regional Hospital. After completing his Master's in Public Health at Columbia University in 1992 and working at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and doing the CDC Preventive Medicine Fellowship.

Dr Brown worked as PAHO's Medical Epidemiologist assigned to the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC) in Trinidad and Tobago; in 1998, he implemented and evaluated surveillance systems and conducted outbreak investigations in the CAREC member countries.

He has completed a Master of Science in Health Systems Management from the University of London/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from LSHTM. Dr. Brown worked with the CDC Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch (APRHB) in the National Center for Environmental Health where he helped to start CDC's asthma activities which eventually led to the CDC Asthma Program.

While at APRHB, Dr. Brown led CDC's activities related to the non-infectious health effects of mold and helped to develop guidelines related to protecting health in moldy environments. With the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, in addition to his role of developing the Science agenda for the Division, Dr. Brown was also the lead for ensuring an ethical framework relating to the activities taken to control infectious diseases among travelers.

He served as the Lead for the Global Migration Task Force as part of CDC's Ebola Response and the Port of Entry Team for the Traveler's Health and Global Migration Task Force for CDC's Zika Virus Response. He has also had leadership roles for CDC's Border Health support to the plague response in Madagascar in 2017 and the 2018 DRC Ebola response, and currently the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Chief for the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch, Dr. Brown oversees the 20 quarantine stations in the United States and the teams within the Branch with whom he works to implement the Branch's mission of protecting the public's health at US borders and beyond.