Shira Dunsiger

About

Shira Dunsiger is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biostatistics, and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. She is based in the Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity and serves as the Associate Director for Data Analytics in the Survey, Qualitative and Applied Data (SQuAD) Research Core at the School of Public Health. Dr. Dunsiger earned her PhD in Biostatistics from Brown University and completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular behavioral medicine. She spent ten years as a Research Scientist at the Miriam Hospital's Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. Her research focuses on developing sophisticated statistical methodologies for analyzing data from behavioral medicine, including areas such as smoking cessation, physical activity, mood, depression, and adherence outcomes. Her broad research interests include pattern detection, big data, and statistical mediation.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Gerontology
• Physical therapy
• Nursing
• Internal medicine
• Computer Science
• Family medicine

Selected publications

• A Cyberbullying Media-Based Prevention Intervention for Adolescents on Instagram: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

  JMIR Mental Health · 2021 · 54 citations

  BACKGROUND: Between 15% and 70% of adolescents report experiencing cybervictimization. Cybervictimization is associated with multiple negative consequences, including depressed mood. Few validated, easily disseminated interventions exist to prevent cybervictimization and its consequences. With over 97% of adolescents using social media (such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat), recruiting and delivering a prevention intervention through social media and apps may improve accessibility o…

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• The Young Men and Media Study: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-Informed, Online HIV Prevention Intervention for 14–17-Year-Old Sexual Minority Males

  AIDS and Behavior · 2021 · 34 citations

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• Design and rationale for a randomized trial of a theory- and technology- enhanced physical activity intervention for Latinas: The Seamos Activas II study

  Contemporary Clinical Trials · 2020 · 14 citations

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• Randomized Trial of a Physical Activity Intervention for Latino Men: Activo

  American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 2020 · 14 citations

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• Use of Serotonin and Catecholamine Reuptake Inhibitors and Onset of Takotsubo Syndrome

  Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine · 2025-08-29 · 2 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Takotsubo Syndrome (TS) is an acute, transient heart failure primarily affecting older women. Excessive sympathetic stimulation from emotional or physical stressors is assumed to trigger TS through a toxic surge in plasma catecholamines. Case reports have signaled the onset of TS following treatment with serotonin and catecholamine reuptake inhibitors. This case-control study investigated whether the use of these medications could be associated with TS onset. METHODS: Incident TS case…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03CA153942

  NIH · $157k · 2013

• NIH Grant R01CA137616

  NIH · $2.8M · 2016

Frequent coauthors

• Bess H. Marcus

  Brown University

  325 shared

• Beth C. Bock

  Brown University

  195 shared

• David M. Williams

  Providence College

  144 shared

• Ernestine Jennings

  Miriam Hospital

  100 shared

• Beth A. Lewis

  University of Minnesota

  91 shared

• David M. Williams

  Swansea Bay University Health Board

  87 shared

• Britta Larsen

  University of California, San Diego

  86 shared

• Kim M. Gans

  University of Connecticut

  75 shared

Labs

• Dunsiger LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Biostatistics

  Brown University

• Other

  Miriam Hospital's Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine

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