Robert Rosales, PhD, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor, Research Scholar Track in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. He studies the effects of minority stress (e.g., discrimination) and sociocultural protective factors (e.g., community support) on behavioral health issues (e.g., alcohol use), with an emphasis on the disparity racial and ethnic minority’s experience in social problems from substance use. He also studies the multilevel predictors of quality health care access. For instance, he’s published research on how the Affordable Care Act was associated with racial and ethnic minorities’ access to behavioral health and integrated care.
In 2021, he was awarded an NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development (K08) Awards from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the NIH Office of the Director titled “Socio-Cultural Protective and Risk Factors of Alcohol Use among Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth.” The award will help build Dr. Rosales’ expertise in sexual minority youth alcohol use, ecological momentary assessment, longitudinal data analysis, and cultural adaptation of measures and intervention.
Rosales, Robert, Zelaya, David G., Hevey, Brandon, Moreno, Oswaldo, Chavez, Sarah J., Figuereo, Victor, Colby, Suzanne M., DeBlaere, Cirleen. "Double Jeopardy: Does Intersectional Discrimination Moderate the Relationship Between Acculturation and Cigarette Dependence Among Latinx Sexual Minority Men Current Smokers?." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2025. |
Rosales, Robert, Veliz, Philip T., Jardine, John, Weigard, Alexander S., McCabe, Sean Esteban. "Ethnic Discrimination’s Role on Increased Substance Susceptibility and Use Among U.S. Youth." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 69, no. 4, 2025, pp. 107956. |
Bello MS, Wang CX, Maglalang DD, Rosales R, Tidey JW, Denlinger-Apte RL, Sokolovsky AW, Colby SM, Cassidy RN. "Racial/ethnic differences in the acute effects of reduced nicotine content cigarettes among adolescents who smoke." Addictive Behaviors, vol. 160, 2025, pp. 108147. |
Chavez, Sarah J., Rosales, Robert, Zelaya, David, Moreno, Oswaldo. "Shielding against adversity: The impact of social support on heavy-drinking Hispanic young adult depression and anxiety." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2025. |
Figuereo, Victor, Rosales, Robert, Takeuchi, David T., Calvo, Rocío. "What Race Am I?." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2025, pp. 1-22. |
Patel-Syed Z, Helseth SA, Rosales R, Janssen T, Scott K, Becker SJ. "The effects of neighborhood perceptions on response to a technology-assisted parenting intervention for adolescent substance use: protocol of a diversity supplement to parent SMART (Substance Misuse in Adolescents in Residential Treatment)." Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, vol. 19, no. 1, 2024, pp. 75. |
Rosales, Robert, Lee, Christina S., Cortés, Dharma, Caetano, Raul, Rohsenow, Damaris J., Lopez, Steven R., Colby, Suzanne M. "Development and evaluation of a measure of drinking behavior in response to acculturation stressors for Latinx adults entering alcohol treatment." Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 2023, pp. 208936. |
Rosales R, Sellers CM, Lee CS, Santos B, O'Brien K, Colby SM. "Examining Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association of Victimization and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors with Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minority Youth." LGBT Health, vol. 10, no. 2, 2023, pp. 109-120. |
Zelaya DG, Rosales R, Garcia JJ, Moreno O, Figuereo V, Kahler CW, DeBlaere C. "Intersectional forms of racism and sexual minority stress are associated with alcohol use among Latinx sexual minority men with greater Hispanic/Latinx cultural orientation." The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, vol. 49, no. 2, 2023, pp. 228-238. |
Rosales, Robert, Zelaya, David G., Moreno, Oswaldo, Figuereo, Victor, Chavez, Sarah J., Ordoñez, Sophia, Costas, Isabel, Ponce, Melissa, Miranda, Robert. "Latinx Sexual Minority Adolescent Substance Use: State of the Science and Call for Intersectional Minority Stressors and Protective Factors." Current Addiction Reports, 2023. |
Zelaya, David G., Rosales, Robert, García, James J., Kahler, Christopher W., DeBlaere, Cirleen. "Psychometric Evaluation of the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale with a Sample of Latinx Sexual Minority Men." Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health, 2023, pp. LGBTQ-2022-0007.R1. |
Moreno, Oswaldo, Rosales, Robert, Munoz, Geovani, Zelaya, David, Figuereo, Victor, Bravo, Adrian J. "Workplace and school microaggressions on anxiety symptoms: The role of cultural values among Hispanic Americans." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 93, 2023, pp. 101774. |
Rosales R, Janssen T, Yermash J, Yap KR, Ball EL, Hartzler B, Garner BR, Becker SJ. "Persons from racial and ethnic minority groups receiving medication for opioid use disorder experienced increased difficulty accessing harm reduction services during COVID-19." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 132, 2022, pp. 108648. |
Cano, Manuel, Perez Portillo, Andrea G., Figuereo, Victor, Rahman, Abir, Reyes-Martínez, Javier, Rosales, Robert, Cano, Miguel Ángel, Salas-Wright, Christopher P., Takeuchi, David T. "Experiences of ethnic discrimination among US Hispanics: Intersections of language, heritage, and discrimination setting." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 84, 2021, pp. 233-250. |
Rosales, Robert, Calvo, Rocío. "The Affordable Care Act: policy predictors of integrated care between Hispanic-serving and mainstream mental health organizations." BMC Health Services Research, vol. 21, no. 1, 2021. |
Lee, Christina S., Rosales, Robert, Colby, Suzanne M., Martin, Rosemarie, Cox, Koriann, Rohsenow, Damaris J. "Addressing social stressors in a brief motivational interview improve mental health symptoms for Latinx heavy drinkers." Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 76, no. 10, 2020, pp. 1832-1850. |
Rosales, Robert, Takeuchi, David, Calvo, Rocío. "After the Affordable Care Act: the Effects of the Health Safety Net and the Medicaid Expansion on Latinxs’ Use of Behavioral Healthcare in the US." The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, vol. 48, no. 2, 2020, pp. 183-198. |
Tran, Alison, Rosales, Robert, Copes, Lynn. "Paint a Better Mood? Effects of Makeup Use on YouTube Beauty Influencers’ Self-Esteem." SAGE Open, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 215824402093359. |
Lopez-Vergara, Hector I., Rosales, Robert, Scheuermann, Taneisha S., Nollen, Nikki L., Leventhal, Adam M., Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. "Social determinants of alcohol and cigarette use by race/ethnicity: Can we ignore measurement issues?." Psychological Assessment, vol. 32, no. 11, 2020, pp. 1075-1086. |
Teixeira, Samantha, Lombe, Margaret, Figuereo, Victor, Chu, Yoosun, Wang, Kaipeng, Bartholomew, Melissa W., Rosales, Robert, Perez-Aponte, Jaime, McRoy, Ruth, Rambo, Deborah Kincade, Mayes, Larry. "University and Community Agency Research Partnerships: Implications for Teaching, Scholarship, and Service." Journal of Social Work Education, 2020, pp. 1-14. |
Lee, Christina S., Colby, Suzanne M., Rohsenow, Damaris J., Martin, Rosemarie, Rosales, Robert, McCallum, Tonya Tavares, Falcon, Luis, Almeida, Joanna, Cortés, Dharma E. "A randomized controlled trial of motivational interviewing tailored for heavy drinking latinxs." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 87, no. 9, 2019, pp. 815-830. |
Lee, Christina S., Rosales, Robert, Stein, Michael D., Nicholls, Mariana, O’Connor, Bridget M., Loukas Ryan, Vanessa, Davis, Elizabeth A. "Brief Report: Low‐Barrier Buprenorphine Initiation Predicts Treatment Retention Among Latinx and Non‐Latinx Primary Care Patients." The American Journal on Addictions, vol. 28, no. 5, 2019, pp. 409-412. |
Rosales, Robert, Calvo, Rocío. "Characteristics of Hispanic-Serving Mental Health Organizations in the U.S." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 30, no. 2, 2019, pp. 547-559. |
Rosales, Robert, Figuereo, Victor, Woo, Bongki, Perez-Aponte, Jaime, Cano, Manuel. "Preparing to work with Latinos: Latino-focused content in social work master’s degree programs." Journal of Teaching in Social Work, vol. 38, no. 3, 2018, pp. 251-262. |
Woo, Bongki, Figuereo, Victor, Rosales, Robert, Wang, Kaipeng, Sabur, Kareemah. "Where Is Race and Ethnicity in Social Work? A Content Analysis." Social Work Research, vol. 42, no. 3, 2018, pp. 180-186. |
Rosales, Robert, Calvo, Rocío. "Si Dios Quiere”: Fatalismo and use of mental health services among Latinos with a history of depression." Social Work in Health Care, vol. 56, no. 8, 2017, pp. 748-764. |
Socio-Cultural Protective and Risk Factors of Alcohol Use Among Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth
Agencies: The National Institute on Minority Health and Minority Health Disparities & NIH Office of the Director
Type: K08 MD015289 (PI: R. Rosales)
Period: 06/21 – 02/25
Total Costs: $824,214
Direct Costs: 763,162
Role: Principal Investigator
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2018 | PhD | Boston College |
2014 | MSW | Boston College |
T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | Brown University, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies | 2018-2021 | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
Name | Title |
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Colby, Suzanne | Associate Director of Applied Learning for the MPH Program, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
Jackson, Kristina | Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research) |
Miranda, Robert | Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
Zelaya, David | Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Interim Director of the Doctoral Program in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences |
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Licensed Certified Social Worker | Commonwealth of Massachusetts | 2018- | #000224393 |
Adjunct Professor. Boston College, 2019-2019 |
Visiting Scientist. Northeastern University, 2018-2019 |