Education and/or Training

B.S.	1972	Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI	Fisheries and Wildlife
M.S.	1975	University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI	Wildlife Ecology
Ph.D.	1978	University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI	Wildlife Ecology and Veterinary Science

Areas of specialization and or research interests

Epizootiology
Population dynamics
Wildlife disease
Wildlife ecology

Professional Experience

1998 – Present	Branch Chief, National Wildlife Health Center
1979 - 1988	Research Epizootiologist/National Wildlife Health Center
1978 – 1979	Field Diagnostician

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

Society for Conservation Biology
Wildlife Disease Association
The Wildlife Society

Honors and/or Awards

Invited speaker/lecturer	1986	Zoological Institute, University of Oslo	Oslo, Norway
Invited speaker/lecturer	1988	125th Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association	Portland, OR
Session Chairman	1990	52nd Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference	Minneapolis, MN
Session Chairman	1991	International Canada Goose Symposium	Milwaukee, WI
Invited Speaker/Lecturer	1991	All-Union Meeting on Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of Wild Animals	Moscow, Russia
Invited Speaker/Lecturer	1992	College of Veterinary Medicine	Bangalore, India
Invited Speaker	1996, 2002	International Migratory Birds Symposium. USFWS, Office of International Affairs	Middlebury, VT
Session Chairman	1997	Ecological Impacts of Wildlife Diseases and Contaminants. 59th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference	Milwaukee, WI

Selected Publications

BRAND, C.J. Landscape Ecology of Plague in the American Southwest - September 19-20, 2000. Fort Collins, Colorado. 2000 Proceedings of an American Southwest Workshop. September 19-20, 2000. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.

BRAND, C.J. Type E avian botulism outbreaks: Lake Erie outbreaks in relation to type E and type C outbreaks from a national perspective. 2001 Pages 45-46 in Avian Botulism in Lake Erie. Workshop Proceedings, co-sponsored by New York Sea Grant and Pennsylvania Sea Grant. January 24-25, 2001. Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

BRAND, C.J. Landscape ecology of plague in the American southwest, September 19-20, 2000, Fort Collins, Colorado: Proceedings of an American Southwest Workshop. 2002 U.S. Geological Survey Information and Technology Report 2002-0001. 24 pages.

FRANSON, J.C., S.P. HANSEN, T.E. CREEKMORE, C.J. BRAND, D.C. Evers, A.E. Duerr, and S. DeStefano. Lead fishing weights and other fishing tackle in selected waterbirds. 2003 Waterbirds 26(3):345-352.

Marra, P.P., S. Griffing, C. Caffrey, A.M. Kilpatrick, R. MCLEAN, C. BRAND, E. SAITO, A.P. Dupuis, L. Kramer, and R. Novak. West Nile Virus and wildlife. 2004 BioScience 43(5):393-402.