Matthew Brown, PhD, MPS

About

Matthew Brown, PHD, MPS is serving as the Deputy Director for Program Quality in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD). From 2021 to 2023, Dr. Brown served as the Deputy Country Director for the CDC in Ethiopia, supporting a large legacy PEPFAR “focus country” field site of more than 90 staff and partnerships that also address vaccine preventable diseases, health security, and support to the African Union’s Africa CDC. From 2020 to 2021, Dr. Brown served as the Deputy Health Attaché in the U.S. Embassy Beijing, providing diplomatic, scientific, and management support to the CDC, FDA, and NIH offices in China. From 2018-2020, Dr. Brown served as the Director of the China Office, NIH Fogarty International Center, in Beijing, China, supporting multiple NIH research initiatives, including brain and neuroscience research, bilateral research funding, and U.S.-China data and biological sample sharing. This Trans-NIH initiative was recognized in 2021 with an NIH Director’s Award. From 2016-2018, Dr. Brown served as a Director of the China Office, NIH National Cancer Institute, supporting several U.S.-China initiatives, including tobacco control, HPV vaccine trials, and studies in esophageal and nasopharyngeal cancer.  Dr. Brown expanded Chinese contributions to the Cancer Imaging Archive, and led a trans-NIH joint funding program with the National Science Foundation of China which made multiple peer reviewed joint funding awards to Principle Investigators at leading research intuitions in the U.S. and China. From 2012-2016, Dr. Brown served as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs in HHS, where he led several U.S. global health initiatives, including the Global Bidding and Assignment Program (GBAS), to strengthen U.S. health security with a more responsive workforce, and served in multiple leadership deployments during the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. 

Dr. Brown is a thought leader in the field of global health diplomacy practice with more than 50 peer reviewed publications in this nascent field, continues to lecture and mentor student research in the field, and maintains academic appointments at the University of California, San Diego; George Washington University; and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.