Molly A. Lauck, Ph.D., Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Walden University
Molly A. Lauck, Ph.D., is the director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs in the Center for Research Support, at Walden University. She oversees research policy and development and works to ensure compliance with protection of human subjects in research, HIPAA guidelines, and U.S. government regulations. In addition, she develops and teaches workshops and courses on grant development, research and scholarly development resources, and research ethics. She is a faculty member in the School of Counseling and Social Services in Walden’s College of Social and Behavioral Science. Before joining Walden University, Molly was the research administrator for the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, Conn., a non-profit research institute that supports community-based research partnerships to reverse inequities, promote positive changes in public health and education, and foster cultural conservation and development. There, she served as the research ethics advisor for study design, development, and implementation of federal, state, and privately funded grants on HIV/AIDS and STD prevention, drug abuse, and harm reduction. She also trained research and administrative staff on study protocol development and implementation and regulatory compliance. She managed standing committees on human resources, safety, ethics, and internships and taught research ethics workshops. While at the institute, Molly served as faculty for the Yale International AIDS Summer Institute at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
Prior to her work at the institute, Molly served as the assistant to the university intellectual integrity officer in the Office of the President at Michigan State University. In this capacity she facilitated the University’s compliance procedures for handling allegations of research misconduct in science.
Molly earned her Ph.D. in medical anthropology from Michigan State University. As a graduate student she was editorial assistant for the academic journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly, research assistant at the Institute for International Health in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University, and interned for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program of the Cancer Section at the Michigan Department of Public Health in Lansing, Michigan. As the recipient of research grants and fellowships she conducted preliminary dissertation research in Nicaragua and the U.S.-Mexico border region. With grant funding from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan, Molly conducted her dissertation research titled, “Disparities in Gaining Access to Prenatal Care: Low-income Mexican-American Women’s Social Resource Management.” Molly also earned her M.A. in medical anthropology from Michigan State, and her B.A. in anthropology and microbiology from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Molly resides in Connecticut with her husband and two children, ages 9 and 7.
