FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Social Sciences at Brown University
Providence, RI
- NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
- These are the awards in the Social Sciences row of the Brown University page.
Leads a grant in this department
17 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Shufang Sun
Leads 3 awards · $1,476,170
- 1R34AT013231-01A1Department: NIH department codePromoting Glucose Management and Maternal and Fetal Health with People with Gestational Diabetes via Mindfulness
Principal investigators: Shufang Sun (contact PI), Margaret Bublitz
$739,990award amount - 5R24AT012845-03Department: NIH department codeAdvancing Resources for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Complementary and Integrative Health Interventions
Principal investigators: Shufang Sun (contact PI), Eric Loucks, Simon B Goldberg
$603,482award amount - 1R21MH143238-01Department: NIH department codeDeveloping and Evaluating an AI-Supported Mobile Health Program for Trauma-Exposed Adolescents and Scalable Youth Mental Health Solutions
Principal investigators: Shufang Sun (contact PI), Vitalii Panok
$132,698award amount
Elizabeth Fussell
Leads 2 awards · $1,097,572
- 5R01HD106069-05Department: NIH department codePuerto Rico Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PR-PSID)$658,947award amount
- 1R21AG098556-01Department: NIH department codeAging and the Health and Well-Being of New Orleans Residents Following Hurricane Katrina$438,625award amount
Alison Tovar
Leads 1 award · $801,800
- 1R01HL185682-01Department: NIH department codeEvaluating a Statewide Community Intervention Model to Address Cardiovascular Risk, Diet, and Physical Activity
Principal investigators: Alison Tovar (contact PI), Lauren Connell Bohlen
$801,800award amount
Takeo Watanabe
Leads 2 awards · $797,500
- 5R01EY019466-18Department: NIH department codeSystematic Psychophysical Investigation of Visual Learning$398,750award amount
- 5R01EY027841-07Department: NIH department codeComprehensive frameworks of perceptual learning$398,750award amount
Tayla Von Ash
Leads 1 award · $787,085
- 1R01MD021515-01Department: NIH department codeTesting a physical activity intervention for mothers delivered in partnership with youth sports organizations$787,085award amount
Jennifer Elizabeth Merrill
Leads 1 award · $707,504
- 1R01AA032818-01A1Department: NIH department codeA comprehensive examination of predictors and consequences of impaired control over drinking using combined laboratory, longitudinal, and ecological momentary assessments
Principal investigators: Jennifer Elizabeth Merrill (contact PI), Elizabeth Aston
$707,504award amount
Margot Jackson
Leads 1 award · $664,333
- 3P2CHD041020-25S1Department: NIH department codeBrown Population Studies and Training Center
Principal investigators: Margot Jackson (contact PI), Zhenchao Qian (contact PI)
$664,333award amount
Zhenchao Qian
Leads 1 award · $664,333
- 3P2CHD041020-25S1Department: NIH department codeBrown Population Studies and Training Center
Principal investigators: Margot Jackson (contact PI), Zhenchao Qian (contact PI)
$664,333award amount
Rachel Lyn Gunn
Leads 1 award · $634,660
- 5R01AA030990-04Department: NIH department codeEffect of Cannabis Use on Alcohol Craving and Consumption among those in Alcohol Treatment$634,660award amount
David M Williams
Leads 1 award · $630,408
- 1R01CA309398-01Department: NIH department codeTesting a Scalable, Remote-Delivered, Positive-Psychology-Based Physical Activity Promotion Intervention for the General Population of Low-Active Adults: An RCT
Principal investigators: David M Williams (contact PI), Lauren Connell Bohlen
$630,408award amount
Tyler Blake Wray
Leads 1 award · $564,399
- 5R01AA031282-03Department: NIH department codeUsing Virtual Reality to help develop discrepancy and elicit change talk in brief motivational interventions for heavy drinking young adults$564,399award amount
David P. Lindstrom
Leads 5 awards · $561,672
- 5R01HD112384-04Department: NIH department codePublic Use Data on Mexican and Central American Immigration$284,395award amount
- 3R01HD112384-04S1Department: NIH department codePublic Use Data on Mexican and Central American Immigration$144,737award amount
- 3R01HD112384-04S2Department: NIH department codePublic Use Data on Mexican and Central American Immigration$132,538award amount
- 3R01HD112384-04S3Department: NIH department codePublic Use Data on Mexican and Central American Immigration$1award amount
- 3R01HD112384-04S4Department: NIH department codePublic Use Data on Mexican and Central American Immigration$1award amount
Nancy P Barnett
Leads 1 award · $498,501
- 5R01AA030019-04Department: NIH department codeCharacteristics and Contexts of Bystander Helping for Alcohol-Related Risk among Emerging Adults$498,501award amount
Thomas Serre
Leads 1 award · $310,706
- 2T32MH126388-06Department: NIH department codeBrown Postdoctoral Training Program in Computational Psychiatry
Principal investigators: Thomas Serre (contact PI), Michael J. Frank, Noah Stephen Philip, Stephanie Ruggiano Jones
$310,706award amount
Andrew D. Foster
Leads 1 award · $295,126
- 5T32HD007338-39Department: NIH department codeTraining in Demography$295,126award amount
Patrick John Kelly
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 5F31DA061593-03Department: NIH department codeCommunity and big-data system approaches to identifying and understanding the health impact of xylazine$50,114award amount
Samantha Erin Clark
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 1F31AA033248-01Department: NIH department codeAlcohol and Adversity as Converging Risk Factors for Immune Dysregulation$50,114award amount
Co-investigators
Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.
Lauren Connell Bohlen
Co-investigator on 1R01HL185682-01, led by Alison Tovar; 1R01CA309398-01, led by David M Williams
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Margaret Bublitz
Co-investigator on 1R34AT013231-01A1, led by Shufang Sun
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Rhode Island Hospital · Psychiatry (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)
Elizabeth Aston
Co-investigator on 1R01AA032818-01A1, led by Jennifer Elizabeth Merrill
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Brown University · Public Health (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Eric Loucks
Co-investigator on 5R24AT012845-03, led by Shufang Sun
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Brown University · Public Health (NIH department code, 1 award)
Simon B Goldberg
Co-investigator on 5R24AT012845-03, led by Shufang Sun
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Wisconsin-Madison · Psychology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Michael J. Frank
Co-investigator on 2T32MH126388-06, led by Thomas Serre
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Rochester · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Noah Stephen Philip
Co-investigator on 2T32MH126388-06, led by Thomas Serre
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- Ocean State Research Institute, Inc. (no department on record, 1 award)
Stephanie Ruggiano Jones
Co-investigator on 2T32MH126388-06, led by Thomas Serre
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Brown University · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 2 awards)
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psych Res (no department on record, 1 award)
Vitalii Panok
Co-investigator on 1R21MH143238-01, led by Shufang Sun
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.