Dr. Brown is a recipient of a 2012 Research Seed Grant from the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. Her project, titled "Unearthing Differences in NSHAP Sexual History Data" examines social support and social isolation and physical and mental health outcomes among older adults who report a history of same-sex sexual relationships. During July 2012, she attended the Fenway Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health, at the Fenway Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Brown attended the 2011 National Institute on Aging's Summer Institute on Aging Research. In 2010, she was awarded the Gerontological Society of America's Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) Section Student Research Award at the Dissertation Level, as well as the Syracuse University Gerontology Center's 2010 graduate student award. Her work has been published in The Gerontologist, the Journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and the Encyclopedia of Health and Aging. She has recently worked as the research coordinator for IMPARA: The Rodney and Marjorie Fink Institute at Menorah Park for Applied Research on Aging, and as a research project coordinator in the Center for Policy Research at SU. A social gerontologist who uses the life course perspective to research the later-life experiences of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, women, and racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, she is also interested in the long-term care experiences of cognitively disabled older adults and their caregivers