Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Arkansas Children’s Research Institute
Other Academic, Research, or Policy Affiliations
Visiting Assitant Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
Contact information
Office: 13 Children’s Way, Slot 842, Little Rock, AR 72202
Phone: 501-364-2730
Email: awbrown@uams.edu
Education
2014 – Postdoc, Meta-research, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2011 – Ph.D., Major: Nutrition; Minor: Statistics
2008 – M.S., Major: Biochemistry; Minor: Statistics
2007 – B.S., Major: Biochemistry
Research Interests
Nutrition, Obesity, Research Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency, Meta-research, Causal Inference
Research Projects
Identifying markers of abnormal neurocognitive trajectories during chemotherapy treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. (PI: van der Plas – NIH/NCI)
Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention (PI: Weber – NIH/NIGMS)
Computational Methods, Resources, and Tools to Assess Transparency and Rigor of Randomized Clinical Trials (PIs: Kilicoglu/Mayo-Wilson – NIH/NLM)
The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research. (PIs: Allison/Brown/Thomas – NIH/NIGMS)
Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research. (PIs: Allison/Brown/Fontaine – NIH/NHLBI)
Removing barriers to better data practices through capacity, opportunity, and motivation (PI: Brown – NIH/NIGMS)
Expanding Translational Research in Arkansas. (PI: James – NIH/NCATS)