Brandon D. Becker, PhD, MPH
Lecturer
Contact
901 Walnut Street
10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-503-0174
215-923-7583 fax
Brandon D. Becker, PhD, MPH
Lecturer
Research & Practice Interests
Patient Reported Outcomes
Patient Focused Clinical Trials
Mindfulness and Well-Being
Education
PhD, Temple University
MPH, Temple University
BS, Washington College
Publications
- Development, psychometric evaluation and cognitive debriefing of the rheumatoid arthritis symptom and impact questionnaire (RASIQ)
- Development and equivalence of new faces for inclusion in the Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT) response scale
- Qualitative and psychometric approaches to evaluate the PROMIS pain interference and sleep disturbance item banks for use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Efficacy, patient-reported outcomes, and safety of the anti-granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor antibody otilimab (GSK3196165) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, phase 2b, dose-ranging study
- Development of patient-reported outcome measures of children’s oral health aesthetics
Teaching
Fundamentals of Epidemiology
Biography
Dr. Brandon Becker is Lecturer in the Jefferson College of Population Health. Before teaching at Jefferson, he earned a PhD in Social and Behavioral Health Science and an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, both from Temple University. Dr. Becker spent five years working in a variety of roles at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the Applied Clinical Research Center and has several years of experience teaching both graduate and undergraduate public health courses at Temple University and Arcadia University.