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, ÍøÆسԹÏ
Colorado School of Public Health at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï (2023 – Present)

Affiliate Faculty, ÍøÆسԹÏ.
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

ÍøÆسԹÏ

• Grose, R. G. (2024). A sexual empowerment process predicting heterosexual women’s sexual pleasure. Psychology & Sexuality, 15(3), 432-450. 
• 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, 56, 158-170.  
• Klimo, K. D., Wilson, J. W., Farewell, C., Grose, R. G., Puma, J. E., Brittain, D., Shomaker, L. B., & Quirk, K. (2024). A pilot and feasibility study on a mindfulness-based intervention adapted for LGBTQ+ adolescents. Special Issue Psychological Health and Benefits of Mindfulness-Based Interventions. The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(10), 1364.Interventions  
• 1. 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 Journal, 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 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï alcohol-use prevention and intervention programming using eCHECKUP TO GO and the Health Belief Model.” Paper presented at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 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. ÍøÆسԹÏ, 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,
• 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].
• 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.
• 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].
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. (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.
• 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.
• Grose, R. G., Grabe, S., & Kohfeldt, D. (2014). Sexual education, gender ideology, and youth sexual empowerment. Journal of Sex Research, 51, 742-753.