Shufang Sun PhD

Shufang Sun, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Brown University. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Sun's research focuses on understanding stigma and stress-related mechanisms contributing to health disparities as well as the utility of mindfulness-based interventions among historically marginalized populations through evidence-based, culturally-responsive, technology-assisted approaches.

Dr. Sun's NIH/NCCIH-funded K23 career development award aims to systematically adapt Mindfulness-based Stress-Reduction and develop an internet-delivered, mindfulness-based intervention as an HIV prevention strategy to engage young sexual minority men and promote sexual and mental health. She is also a co-investigator on several NIH-funded R awards focusing on (1) HIV prevention globally as well as (2) understanding biological mechanisms (epigenetics, inflammatory biomarkers) through which mindfulness training may be capable of remediating the adverse impacts of early life stress.