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About the Author

Brian S. Katcher, Pharm.D., is the author of MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching and Prescription Drugs: An Indispensable Guide for People Over 50. He was one of the founding editors of Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs, a textbook used in training clinical pharmacists. Dr. Katcher is the Public Health Pharmacist for the Community Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health and Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco.

His main work at the San Francisco Department of Public Health is promoting community-based, environmentally-focused primary prevention activities. Toward that end, he is developing assessments of population health that will facilitate community action. He is a member of the San Francisco Burden of Disease & Injury Work Group, which is pioneering the first municipal application of the Harvard/WHO Global Burden of Disease approach toward assessments of population health. This group has recently completed an analysis of premature mortality in San Francisco and is currently working on a complementary assessment of morbidity.

His interest in promoting the most effective use of MEDLINE supports a larger vision of evidence-based health policy and practice.

This page was last updated March 3, 2000