Ph.D., Michigan State University
Eun-Young Mun has been a member of the Rutgers faculty since
2006 when she moved from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has a
joint appointment at the Center of Alcohol Studies and graduate faculty
appointments with the Departments of Psychology and Statistics in the Rutgers
School of Graduate Studies. Eun-Young Mun's research is aimed at
bringing Big Data approaches to
alcohol intervention trials to preserve and extend their life span and to
utilize data more efficiently and meaningfully to help guide health decisions.
She is interested in providing evidence of comparative effectiveness of
competing treatments even if they were never directly compared head-to-head in
any given trial by bringing methodological solutions. More broadly, she is interested
in emerging technologies for health research and how the expanded capabilities
can be maximized to generate better insights and lead to clinical applications.
Her research has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) since 2002. Since arriving at Rutgers, she has brought over $9.7
million to Rutgers from NIH and other funding sources in collaboration
with other investigators (over $4.8 million as principal investigator). She has annually
served on NIH scientific grant review committees since 2010. In 2016, her research
program (R01 AA019511) was recognized as one of the 10 most exciting projects
supported by NIH at the Inaugural NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Festival. The students she has mentored have been accepted into highly coveted
positions at Google, ETS, Wall Street firms, research intensive universities, and
clinical practice firms.
