URAP

Timothy Brown - Professor, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project will implement and disseminate the FUTUREPAIN validated questionnaire and implement an online intervention for chronic pain focused on the South Asian population. The project will us a phone app to collect data during the project. The project will use a cross-over randomized design...

Timothy Brown - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Large racial/ethnic disparities exist in medical care. Attenuation or removal of these disparities requires a rigorous understanding of the relevant underlying mechanisms. One such mechanism is high-quality physician-patient relationships. High-quality physician-patient relationships are associated with improved health outcomes and lower costs. However, such relationships appear...

Timothy Brown - Professor, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

A growing literature in recent years has documented the economic returns-on-investment (ROI) in public health, but there is low public awareness of these results. This literature includes estimation of spending offsets when public health prevents the need for costly curative health care, as benefiting both private healthcare payers...

Timothy Brown - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project will use simulation methods to determine the cost-effectiveness of mind-body interventions using data from randomized controlled trials, national survey data, and other resources. The goal is to publish a peer-reviewed article to help establish the value of these interventions in healthcare. This has not been...