About

Dr. Shufang Sun is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. She serves as the Associate Director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. A psychologist and global mental health researcher, her work focuses on scalable, culturally responsive digital mental health interventions for youth facing adversity, including conflict-affected adolescents and youth exposed to trauma. Dr. Sun has led many NIH and other foundation-funded studies and received numerous national and international awards for her research, teaching, and innovation. With deep expertise in interdisciplinary collaboration, global health research, and leadership, Dr. Sun brings longstanding commitment to mentoring early career scholars, particularly those from underrepresented and international backgrounds, and to co-developing sustainable mental health infrastructure in low-resource and humanitarian settings.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Clinical psychology
• Psychiatry
• Family medicine

Recent grants

• Developing Internet-Delivered, Mindfulness-based Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk and Promote Mental and Sexual Health among Young Adult MSM

  NIH · $1.0M · 2020–2025

• NIH Grant R01HL072838

  NIH · $2.5M · 2010

• NIH Grant R01DK071485

  NIH · $2.2M · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Don Operario

  Emory University

  59 shared

• Eric B. Loucks

  27 shared

• Simon B. Goldberg

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  26 shared

• Laura Whiteley

  19 shared

• Larry K. Brown

  Brown University

  17 shared

• Hongliang Liu

  Chongqing University

  16 shared

• Ling Zhan

  Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  16 shared

• X. Qiu

  Sun Yat-sen University

  16 shared

Labs

• Mindfulness for Health Equity Lab (mHEAL)PI

Awards & honors

• American Psychological Association
• Society for Prevention Research
• Brown University

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• Lai-Sheng Wangh-168
• Huajian Gaoh-156
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• Karen Furieh-148