Raymond L. Moody, PhD (he/him)
raymond.moody@uconn.edu | Google Scholar Profile
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut. My research examines the impact of social and psychological stress on substance use and sexual behavior among sexual and gender minorities. My current projects examine the impacts of substance use on sexual behavior and adherence to HIV prevention strategies in the context of intersecting stressors. I earned my Ph.D. in Health Psychology and Clinical Science from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My dissertation was funded by an R36 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and focused on executive attention and emotion regulation as mediating mechanisms linking syndemic conditions and HIV transmission risk behavior among sexual minority men. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship in the NIDA-funded T32 Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Jolaade Kalinowski, EdD (she/her)
Dr. Jolaade Kalinowski is an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Family Sciences department at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Kalinowski is a behavioral cardiovascular researcher. Her research pertains to the role of chronic stress in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction in Black women. She is particularly interested in the unique role that stress plays in elderly Black women’s cardiovascular health, and how stressors may contribute to health disparities. She is interested in: (1) advance understanding of the complex interactions between psychosocial, behavioral and community-level factors contributing to CVD disparities in Black women; and (2) developing, testing and implementing innovative, scalable interventions to mitigate the adverse health effects of stress in Black women.