Brandon Osborn, PhD

Brandon Osborn, PhD is the principal and founder of Lucimos. He also is a contractor and Senior Research Associate with AMTC & Associates. He has worked in the area of health and human services since 2010 and has been involved in the research and evaluation of health and human services starting in 2015. Since then, he has been involved in over 80 different federally-funded evaluation and research projects and has been the principal investigator for 15 of them.

Trained as a social epidemiologist and implementation scientist, Dr. Osborn has over a decade of experience in research designing, implementing, and evaluating a variety of social services and health-related programs. He was previously a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he was nationally recognized and selected as a fellow of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard. He previously worked at the Center for Health Equity Research in California where he helped evaluate place-based interventions aimed at addressing health disparities. He also assisted with the evaluation of DOJ-funded projects aimed at decreasing gang involvement and human trafficking among at-risk youth. Dr. Osborn coordinated and evaluated a mobile food pantry and a healthcare workforce development program at a federally qualified health center. He also served as the health education coordinator for the Orange County Transitions in Health Program, during which he developed a health and resource education curriculum for inmates pending release from jail. Dr. Osborn has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public health at the University of California. Previous to his leadership roles, Dr. Osborn provided direct services while employed at numerous positions at the Anaheim Unified High School District, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and the City of Placentia.

Osborn received his PhD in Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. He served as chief fellow and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition and Implementation Science, funded by a National Institutes of Health national research service award, in the School of Medicine—Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado—Anschutz Medical Campus. He earned a Bachelor of Science in health science from California State University, Long Beach. He has also received formal training in research ethics and responsible conduct for research, science communication, and data science. He is an active member of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) and Academy Health. He also is a journal reviewer for multiple scientific journals.