Rose Grose

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2016.
Area of Study: Psychology (Social)

MS, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011.
Area of Study: Psychology

BA, Kalamazoo College, 2008.
Area of Study: Psychology

Adjunct Associate Professor, Anschutz Medical Campus
Colorado School of Public Health (2023 – Present)

Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado
Colorado School of Public Health at UNC (2023 – Present)

Affiliate Faculty, University of Northern Colorado.
Department of Rehabilitation and Human Services (2018 – Present)

Instructor, Morehouse School of Medicine
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine (2017-2018)

Satcher Health Policy Leadership Fellow, Morehouse School of Medicine
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (2017-2018)

Qualitative Analysis Intern, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Resilience and Transgender Youth Study,
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health (2018)

Health Policy Intern, Georgia Equality
(2018)

Gender, Family, and Global Health Post-Doctoral Fellow, Emory University
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health (2016-2017)

Areas of Interest

• Human Sexuality
• Global Women’s Health
• LGBTQ Studies
• Social Determinants of Health
• Social Inequality & Health Equity
• Health Policy

• Grose, R. G. (2024). A sexual empowerment process predicting heterosexual women’s sexual pleasure. Psychology & Sexuality. [online].
• Jayne, P. E., Szucs, L. E., Lesesne, C. A., Grose, R. G., & Johns, M. M. (2024). “I wouldn’t have felt so alone”: The sexual health education experiences of transgender and gender diverse youth living in the southeastern United States.Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. [online].
• Grose, R. G., Brown, E., Roth Bayer, C., & Paulk, E. (2022). The Youth HIV Policy Advisors Programme: Creating change agents and policy leaders. Health Education, 81, 293-311.
• Grose, R. G., Delgado, M., Ortega, T., Stangis, K. (Nov. 19, 2021). “First-generation college women’s sexual health: Sexual education, knowledge, self-efficacy, assertiveness, and risk.” Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Grose, R. G., Quirk, K., Cook, M., Farewell, C., Puma, J., Shomaker, L., Brittain, D. (2021). “Adaptation of a mindfulness-based intervention for LGBTQ+ adolescents: Focus group and steering committee insights.” Paper presented at the America Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Halvorson, S., Ananea, D., Wright, C., McDonald, E., Turner, G., & Grose, R. G. (Apr. 8, 2021). “Recommendations to improve UNC alcohol-use prevention and intervention programming using eCHECKUP TO GO and the Health Belief Model.” Paper presented at UNC Research Day, Greeley, CO. Graduate Natural and Health Sciences Research Excellence Award Finalist.
• Grose, R. (Feb. 8, 2021). “Safer sex during COVID-19, with Dr. Rose Grose.” Sex, Drugs, and Self Care Podcast. University of Northern Colorado, Office of Health Promotion.
• Pampati, S., Andrzejewski, J., Steiner, R. J., Rasberry, C. N., Adkins, S. H., Lesesne, C. A., Boyce, L., Grose, R. G., & Johns, M. M. (2021). “We deserve care and we deserve competent care”: Qualitative perspectives on health care from transgender youth in the Southeast United States. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 56, 54-59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.09.021
• Grose, R. G. (Nov. 6, 2020). “Shifting courses midstream: Taking undergraduate human sexuality online in an emergency.” Continuing Education paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Virtual Annual Meeting.
• Grose, R. G., Chen, J. S., Roof, K. A., Rachel, S., & Yount, K. M. (2020). Sexual and reproductive health outcomes of violence against women and girls in lower-income countries: A review of reviews. The Journal of Sex Research. [online, open access]. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1707466 
• Hayford, S. R., Garver, S., Soura, A. B., Cheong, Y. F., Grose, R. G., & Yount, K. M. (2020). Community influences on female genital mutilation/cutting: A comparison of four francophone West African countries. Studies in Family Planning, 51, 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12109
• Yount, K. M., Cheong, Y. F., Grose, R. G., & Hayford, S. R. (2020). Community gender systems and daughter’s risk of female genital mutilation/cutting: Multilevel findings from Egypt. PLoSOne. [open access]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229917
• Grose, R. G., Hayford, S.R., Cheong, Y.F., Garver, S., Kandala, N.B., & Yount, K.M. (2019). Community influences on female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya: Norms, opportunities, and ethnic diversity. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 60, 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146518821870
• Grose, R. G., Roof, K., Semenza, D., Leroux, X., & Yount, K. M. (2019). Mental health, empowerment, and violence against adolescent girls and young women in lower income countries: A systematic review of reviews. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 46, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2019.01.007
• Robles, B., & Grose, R. G. (Nov. 8, 2019). “Ethnic group disparities in sexual knowledge and risk behavior.” Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Grose, R. G., Driffin, D., Brown, E., Roth-Bayer, C., & Paulk, E. (Nov. 9, 2018). “The Youth HIV Policy Advisors Program: Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through Policy Advocacy and Empowerment.” Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Grabe, S., Grose, R. G., & Dutt, A. (2015). Women’s land ownership and relationship power: A mixed methods approach to understanding structural inequities and violence against women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 39, 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684314533485 (Winner of the 2015 Georgia Babladelis Best Paper Award)
• Grose, R. G., & Grabe, S. (2014). Sociocultural attitudes surrounding menstruation and alternative menstrual products: The explanatory role of self-objectification. Health Care for Women International, 35, 677-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2014.888721 
• Grose, R. G., & Grabe, S. (2014). The explanatory role of relationship power and control in domestic violence against women in Nicaragua: A feminist psychology analysis. Violence Against Women, 20, 972-993. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801214546231
• Grose, R. G., Grabe, S., & Kohfeldt, D. (2014). Sexual education, gender ideology, and youth sexual empowerment. Journal of Sex Research, 51, 742-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2013.809511