Professor Meyer serves as a senior research associate at the and as a faculty affiliate in both the and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. She studies social policy at the intersection of aging, gender and life course.

Meyer is co-author of Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (2020) and co-editor of Grandparenting in the United States (2016), both with Ynesse Abdul-Malak. In 2007 she co-authored Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age, which won the Gerontological Society of America’s Kalish Book Award. In 2016 she was named winner of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award.

Meyer has published over 50 scholarly articles and her work appears in leading journals including American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Gender & Society, and Social Problems. Her research has been reported in the media including New York Times, NPR, US News and World Report, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and LA Times.

Brown is the Principal Investigator of Early Identification of Cognitive Impairment among Vulnerable Adults Living at Home, a community collaboration with SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Department of Geriatrics and Southwest Community Connections, which is funded by the Health Foundation of Western and Central New York. She is co-Investigator of the Genesis Health Project’s African American Dementia Caregiver Support Program (Principal Investigator: Luvenia W. Cowart), funded by a 2016-2021 grant from the New York State Department of Health. She has published her research in Supportive Care in Cancer, Women & Health, the Health Education Journal, Gerontology, Research on Aging, Children & Youth Services Review, the Journal of Family Issues, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, The Gerontologist, and the Journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Dr. Brown is the author of a chapter on LGBT Lives and Military Service, in Life Course Perspectives on Military Service, and co-author of chapters on Chronic Illnesses and Conditions in Gender and Sexual Minorities (with Jane. A McElroy) in LGBT Health: Meeting the Health Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities, Addressing Behavioral Cancer Risks from a LGBT Health Equity Perspective (with Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen and Charles P. Hoy-Ellis) in Cancer and the LGBT Community: Unique Perspectives from Risk to Survivorship, and Gerontological Social Work (with Deborah J. Monahan), in Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues.

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, Dr. Brown is also interested in dementia caregiving, the long-term care experiences of cognitively disabled older adults and their caregivers, and the treatment and survivorship experiences of breast cancer patients.