Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison
B.A., University of Kentucky at Lexington

Jane D. Brown  is the James L. Knight Professor in the school and a fellow in the Carolina Population Center. She has more than 30 years experience conducting research on how the media are used by and influence adolescents’ health behaviors.  She currently is a co-investigator on projects in China and North Carolina focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, and a project that is assessing the effects of the introduction of television in rural villages in Vietnam.    

Brown is the co-editor or co-author of five books on adolescents’ health and the media, including: "Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality" (2002), "Media, Sex and the Adolescent" (1992) and "The Media, Social Science and Social Policy for Children" (1985). She is also author of more than 60 book chapters and articles, and on the editorial boards of journals in communication research, sexuality research and adolescent health. She has mentored doctoral and post-doctoral students in the schools of journalism and mass communication, public health, education, and in sociology and psychology. Brown has served on the board of Advocates for Youth, the Trojan Sexual Health Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Children, Youth and Families, and currently, the research advisory board of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

At UNC, Brown has served as chair of the Faculty Council and director of the Institute for Arts and Humanities' Academic Leadership Program, and on many committees and boards. Brown was awarded the University's C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award in 2011.

Office phone: 919.962.1204
Office location: Carroll 360
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