M Harvey Brenner, PhD has been professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UNT Health Science Center since 2005. He has been professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to the present (part-time since 2005), and professor and chair of Epidemiology, Institute for Health Sciences, Berlin University of Technology (Germany), from 1997 to the present. Within the United States, Dr. Brenner has done the major work on the impact of the economy on physical and mental health for the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee. Dr. Brenner has performed analyses on the impact of economic development, and specifically unemployment, in major studies of U.S. states funded by the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the National Institute on Ageing. He has been responsible for analyses of the impact on mortality, of alcohol and tobacco consumption, socio-economic status and employment patterns, in studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Brenner has been responsible for major studies of the impact of economic and social factors on health and mortality, in studies for the European Commission, and for governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. Dr. Brenner has also developed statistical models on infant and child health for the United States as a whole, for 40 industrialized countries, and for over 120 industrialized and developing countries.

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