Dr. Brown is the Academic Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He has a particular interest in HIV and risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults. He also conducts clinical treatment trials to reduce substance use and depression for those lwith HIV through AIDS Trials networks and is developing and testing an iPhone game to improve medical adherence for adolescents and young adults with HIV. In addition, his research promotes engagement and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for MSM in the South. He is co-Director of the Clinical and Behavioral Sciences Core of the Providence - Boston Center for AIDS Research, the PI of a NIMH T32 postdoctoral training program in HIV biobehavioral research, and PI of a NIMH R25 Research Training Program for child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.