Raymond L. Moody, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Sciences

(he/him)

Ryan L. Moody is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut. His research examines the impact of social and psychological stress on substance use and sexual behavior among sexual and gender minorities. His current projects examine the impacts of substance use on sexual behavior and adherence to HIV prevention strategies in the context of intersecting stressors. Moody earned his Ph.D. in health psychology and clinical science from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His 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. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the NIDA-funded T32 Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.