Jill R Brown

Jill R Brown is a Professor at the Department of Psychological Science within the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University. Her work integrates cross-cultural psychology, ethnography, and mixed methods research to examine child development, prosocial behavior, and healthcare systems in global contexts.

• PhD in Psychological Science

Research Interests: Brown specializes in culturally distributed caregiving systems, particularly analyzing child fosterage networks in Namibia and functional reasoning in Dominican Republic scarcity contexts. Her longitudinal studies on mixed methods research methodology have significantly impacted cross-cultural psychological research.

Publications: Her scholarly output spans topics including HIV/AIDS socialization in Southern Africa, prosocial behavior definitions across ethnic groups, and liver transplant patient experiences, with a methodological emphasis on ethnographic and mixed-methods approaches.

• Alpha Sigma Nu Member
• Leigh Minturn Memorial Award for early career cross-cultural research
• Society for Cross-Cultural Research Outstanding Faculty Award
• Gamma Phi Beta Consulting recognition

Consulting & Research: Principal investigator for international projects in rural Uganda technology assessment and the Computers for Africa program evaluation, demonstrating commitment to global behavioral health outcomes and ecological determinants in minority youth development.