Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA, is an assistant professor of medicine and public health at Brown University. He conducts National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research at the intersection of public health, public safety, and justice.

Prior to research,  del Pozo served as a police officer for 23 years. Nineteen were spent in the New York City Police Department, where he started on patrol in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. He went on to command two patrol precincts, deploy to Amman, Jordan, as an intelligence liaison, and serve in the police commissioner’s office. He also spent four years as chief of police in Burlington, Vermont.

An elected member of the Council on Criminal Justice and a Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) scholar at the National Institute of Justice, del Pozo was the 2016 recipient of the Police Executive Research Forum’s Gary Hayes Award for excellence in police leadership and innovation.

His popular writing about public safety and health has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Vital City, CNN, and the New York Daily News. Del Pozo’s book, The Police and the State: Security, Social Cooperation, and the Public Good, was published by Cambridge University Press.