University of Northern Colorado Colorado School of Public Health Campus Box 89 Greeley, CO 80639
Education
PhD, Social Psychology (Feminist Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa
Cruz, CA
MS, Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
BA, Psychology, Women’s Studies, magna cum laude, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement Program, LGBTQ+ Urban Track. Colorado
Clinical and Translational Science Institute, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora,
CO.
Sex Educator Certificate, San Francisco Sex Information, San Francisco, CA
Inclusive Leadership Training Certificate, edX and CatalystX
Professional/Academic Experience
2023-present, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Public Health at the University
of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2018-2023, Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Public Health at the University
of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
2017-2018, Instructor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine Morehouse
School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
2017-2018, Satcher Health Policy Leadership Fellow, The Satcher Health Leadership
Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
2018, Qualitative Analysis Intern, Resilience and Transgender Youth Study, Division
of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
2018, Health Policy Intern, Georgia Equality, Atlanta, GA
2016-2017, Gender, Family, and Global Health Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hubert Department
of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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.
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, doi: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.
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. doi: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].doi: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. doi: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. doi: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. doi: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. doi: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. doi: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. doi:10.1080/00224499.2013.809511
Honors and Awards
2021, Delta Omega, Alpha Upsilon Chapter Public Health Honorary Society
