International Health Institute

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Core Faculty

  • abigail harrison

    Abigail Harrison, Ph.D., MPH

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Graduate Program Director, MSC in Global Public Health
    abigail_harrison@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Global HIV prevention; reproductive health; women's reproductive decision-making and empowerment; adolescents living with HIV; social epidemiology; health behaviors and behavioral interventions; qualitative and mixed methods research; South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

  • mark lurie

    Mark Lurie, Ph.D.

    Professor of Epidemiology
    mark_lurie@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Infectious disease epidemiology; HIV/AIDS; sexually transmitted infections; silicosis and tuberculosis; the role of migration in the spread of HIV; antiretroviral therapy; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; pandemic prevention and prediction, mobility and social mixing

  • stephen mcgarvey

    Stephen McGarvey, Ph.D., MPH

    Professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology
    stephen_mcgarvey@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Nutrition and health transitions; non-communicable disease risk factors; adiposity, hypertension; type 2 Diabetes; diet; psychosocial stress; Samoa, American Samoa, South Africa

  • Jennifer Pellowski, PhD

    Jennifer Pellowski, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    jennifer_pellowski@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    HIV treatment and prevention; women's health; child and adolescent health; technology-based approaches to data collection and intervention; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

  • shufang sun

    Shufang Sun, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    shufang_sun@brown.edu

    Minority stress and mental health among marginalized populations; LGBTQ individuals; sexual minority men; mHealth and mindfulness-based interventions; HIV prevention; psychologist; China; Philippines

Faculty Affiliates

  • karen andes

    Karen Andes

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, MPH Program Director
    karen_andes@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Adolescent sexual and reproductive health; positive youth development; health disparities; social determinants of health; Paraguay

  • Bulled

    Nicola Bulled

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    nicole_bulled@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    HIV/AIDS, Infectious diseases, Syndemics, Social determinants of health, Biopolitics; Southern Africa; Lesotho; South Africa

  • Alethea Desroziers

    Alethea Desrosiers

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
    alethea_desroziers@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Global mental health; implementation science; intervention development; mHealth; youth and families; capacity building; Sierra Leone; Colombia; Venezuela; Ecuador  

  • monika doshi

    Monika Doshi

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    monika_doshi@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    HIV prevention, care & treatment; mental health; immigration and immigrant health; public health and human rights; women’s health; gender and sexuality; stigma and discrimination; qualitative and mixed methods; community-based participatory research; intervention development; monitoring and evaluation; health equity; policy; England, Bangladesh, China, India, Mexico, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

  • jason gantenberg

    Jason Gantenberg

    Assistant Professor of the Practice of Epidemiology
    jason_gantenberg@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Agent-based modeling; causal inference; epidemiology; gonorrhea; infectious diseases; influenza; machine learning; respiratory syncytial virus; systems science

  • Dr. Geng

    Fangli Geng

    Assistant Profess of Health Services, Policy and Practice
    fangli_geng@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Long-term care, post-acute care, healthcare staffing, informal caregiving,  AI application in health care, United State, China, Japan

  • Diana Grigsby-Toussaint

    Diana Grigsby-Toussaint

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
    diana_grigsby@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Theoretical approaches from epidemiology (documenting determinants and distribution of risk in populations), nutrition (processes by which individuals obtain and utilize food) and geography (the role of place in shaping health risk); non-communicable disease risk among vulnerable populations; impacts of nutrition transition on health; Ecuador; Uganda

  • Wilmot Godfrey James

    Wilmot James

    Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice
    wilmot_james@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Pandemic response and biosecurity; global health security; vaccine mandates; health needs of children; climate change; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Aditya Khanna

    Aditya Khanna

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    aditya_khanna@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Social network analysis; agent-based modeling and predictive analytics; health equity; mitigating psychosocial (e.g., substance use) and structural (e.g., incarceration) barriers to healthcare; HIV/STI prevention and management; incarceration; addiction treatment; breast cancer; cardiovascular disease; South Africa; Uganda

  • Joseph "Greg" Rosen, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.

    Joseph "Greg" Rosen

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research)
    greg_rosen@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    HIV care and treatment; HIV prevention; substance use and harm reduction; implementation science; mixed-methods research; latent variable modeling; stated-preference methods; South Africa, Uganda, United States

  • Malabika Sarker

    Malabika Sarker

    Interim Chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    malabika_sarker@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Implementation research; mixed-methods; reproductive health; STI/HIV prevention; tuberculosis control; nutrition; Sub-Saharan Africa; Bangladesh

  • daniel jordan smith

    Daniel Jordan Smith

    Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. Professor of International Studies
    daniel_j_smith@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Population processes, political culture, kinship, infrastructure, health; Nigeria; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Craig A. Spencer

    Craig Spencer

    Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice
    craig_spencer@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Examining access to medical care and human rights, including measuring mortality and maternal health in Burundi, child separation in emergencies in D.R. Congo and South Sudan,  hepatitis E surveillance response program in Chad