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Faculty, Fall 2019

School of Public Health Catalyst Grant Program

By Brown Public Health · Posted: October 1, 2019

The Catalyst Grant Program supports work that builds outward from existing strengths to deepen and broaden the School’s research program around the four themes identified in the Strategic Plan: Mental Health, Resilience and Mindfulness; Environmental Health and Climate Change; Vulnerable Life Stages: Children and Older Adults; and Addiction. We are proud to fund the following projects.


Developing a novel geographic momentary assessment approach for studying activity space and underage alcohol use

  • Kristina Jackson, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Nancy Barnett, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Patrick Vivier, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute; Health Services, Policy & Practice

A mobile app for designing and analyzing data from personalized experiments

  • Christopher Schmid, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Biostatistics
  • Thomas Trikalinos, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health; Health Services, Policy & Practice
  • Jeff Huang, Computer Science

Virtual reality simulations to develop cognitive discrepancy in motivational interviews with young adult at-risk drinkers

  • Tyler Wray, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Christopher Kahler, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Nancy Barnett, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Siu-Li Khoe, Rhode Island Virtual Reality DJ Johnson, New England Institute of Technology

Improving childhood health in LMICs starting in pregnancy: Addressing metabolic syndrome’s impact on pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in South Africa

  • Angela Bengtson, Centers for Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Epidemiology
  • Mark Lurie, International Health Institute, Epidemiology
  • Jennifer Pellowski, International Health Institute, Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Steve McGarvey, International Health Institute, Epidemiology
  • Susan Cu-Uvin, Global Health Initiative; Health Services, Policy & Practice; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Medicine
  • Landon Myer, University of Cape Town School of Public Health & Family Medicine
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