Active Projects
WECARE 3.0
NIH/NIA · 2025–2030 · $3,088,427
Role: PI
A randomized controlled trial of a culturally tailored, AI-enabled social media intervention to enhance caregiving mastery among Chinese American dementia caregivers.
Intergenerational AI Literacy through Digital Storytelling
NSF · 2025–2028 · $661,478
Role: Co-PI (Lead PI: Janice Zhang
DERA: Dementia Education Resources for Action
Virginia GTI · 2025–2026 · $24,954
Role: PI
An online training program developed using generative AI and user-centered design to strengthen community health workers’ ADRD-related skills.
Featured Completed Projects
WECARE 2.0
NIA Roybal · 2023–2024 · $115,000
Role: PI
Pilot of an improved WeChat-based personalized intervention focused on process evaluation and user engagement.
Stronger2: Stronger Partnership, Stronger Community
DHHS OMH · 2021–2024 · $3,850,000
Role: Subcontract PI (Lead: A. Mingo, Fairfax)
A community-academic partnership program improving health literacy and resilience in underserved minority communities.
ARICAA / WECARE 1.0
Virginia Center for Aging · 2021–2022 · $45,000
Role: PI
Protocol development for a culturally tailored social media-based program; foundational stage of the WECARE program.
Southwest Rural Health Research Center
HRSA · 2016–2019 · $2,800,000
Role: Co-I and Project-PI (Lead: J. Bolin, TAMU)
Examined eHealth behaviors, the digital divide, and rural-urban health disparities.
Run4Love
China NSFC + Rockefeller · 2016–2020 · $180,000
Role: Co-PI (Lead: Y. Guo, Sun Yat-sen)
A WeChat-based mHealth intervention shown to reduce depressive symptoms among people living with HIV in China.
iCanFit
Multiple grants · 2011–2017 · $150,000
Role: PI
A mobile-enabled web application using community-based participatory methods to promote physical activity among older cancer survivors.
Earlier Funded Projects
- EMBRACE — Mason ISE · 2023–2024 · $10,000 · PI
- EARBUD: Wearable Sensor System for Dietary Monitoring — GMU CPH Seed · 2021–2022 · $50,000 · PI
- eHealth Behaviors and Digital Divide in the U.S. — Informatics Education Fund · 2020–2021 · $10,000 · PI
- KakaoTalk-based HBV Screening Intervention — Potomac Health Foundation · 2020–2022 · $25,000 · mPI
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Patient-Provider Communication in the Digital Era — TAMU T3 + PESCA · 2017–2019 · ~$60,000 · PI
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Central Texas Cancer Prevention Center Research Network — CDC · 2009–2014 · $1,600,000 · Co-I
- Venue-based HIV/Alcohol Risk Reduction in China — NIAAA R01 · 2008–2013 · $2,629,000 · Subcontract PI
Full CV available upon request.