Director of the Presidential Scholars Program, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Race and Ethnicity in America and Health Services, Policy and Practice

Overview

Dr. Aubert has a deep and unique background in public health, with experience in education, government, and the private sector. In addition to teaching at Brown, he has held academic appointments at the University of North Carolina, Rutgers University, and Emory University. Early in his career, Dr. Aubert worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, initially as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and later as the Chief of Epidemiology in the Division of Diabetes Translation. While on assignment at the CDC, he was a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. He later moved into a series of leadership roles focused on issues related to financing and delivery at health care organizations, including Bayer Healthcare, Medco Health Solutions, Aetna, and Research & Evaluation Analytics.

His research areas of interests include the evaluation of diabetes management programs and modeling the economic impact of interventions on the compliactions of  diabetes.  He has a long history of medical and pharmacy claims analysis and developing methods for measuring medication adherence.

Dr. Aubert received a B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College, an M.S.P.H. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC.