Molly Maloney

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brown University

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Location: ProvidenceRI

Educational Degree(s):
• PhD

Years of Experience: 6-10 years

Victimization Focus

• Campus Sexual Assault
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Sexual Abuse or Violence

Special Populations

• Women and girls, generally

Victim Research Expertise

• Community-based participatory research
• Data collection
• Needs assessment
• Qualitative studies
• Quantitative studies

Additional Research Expertise

• Data collection
• Descriptive studies
• Quantitative studies
• Randomized controlled trial

About the Researcher

I am currently an NIAAA-funded T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) within the School of Public Health at Brown University. I received my doctoral degree in clinical psychological sciences from Purdue University and completed clinical psychology internship at VA Boston Healthcare System, where I specialized in the treatment of substance use disorders across the spectrum of care. Driven by the ubiquity and devastating consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV), I have had a strong and long-standing commitment to translational academic research focused on violence prevention. Because alcohol use is involved in over half of all incidences of interpersonal violence and is a modifiable risk factor for violence, my work has focused on intervening on risky alcohol use as a means of reducing violence. My research uses varied methodology to examine risk for violence use and victimization, as well as interventions to prevent violence. These methodologies include experiments, alcohol administration, cross-sectional research, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), meta-analysis, ecological momentary intervention (EMI) development, cultural adaptation modeling, and qualitative methods. Representative manuscripts have been published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, including Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, and I was awarded Graduate Student Publication of the Year Award from Purdue University in recognition of a manuscript I published in Clinical Psychology Review in 2023. My research has been funded by Purdue University's College of Health and Human Sciences and Department of Clinical Psychological Sciences, the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH), Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Indiana CTSI), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). While on postdoctoral fellowship at CAAS, I am pursuing additional training in ecological momentary assessment (EMA), mHealth and just-in-time treatment development, community-engaged research methods, and intensive longitudinal data analysis to support my long-term career goals to develop mHealth and just-in-time interventions to prevent alcohol-related violence.