Aimee H. Moles, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor of Research
Contact
amoles@lsu.edu
225-578-0573
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1982
Master's Degree: MSW, Ä¢¹½tv, 1990
PhD: Geography, Ä¢¹½tv, 2014

Aimee H. Moles, PhD, LCSW, is an Associate Professor of Research in the College of Human Sciences & Education and at Ä¢¹½tv’s Social Research & Evaluation Center. Her research interests include health disparities, human adaptation to environmental change, intervention research, applied spatial analysis, and program evaluation. She has worked as a perinatal social worker, social work instructor, research associate, and SREC researcher. She is a licensed clinical social worker and geospatial analyst, contributing to evaluation, data collection, and applied research across behavioral health, public safety, education, and community resilience projects.
Health Disparity
Human Adaptation to Environmental Change
Intervention Research
Applied Spatial Analysis
Program Evaluation
GIS and Community Mapping
Quantitative and Mixed Methods
Community-Based Research
DWI Court Evaluation
Louisiana Highway Safety Commission | Co-Principal Investigator | 2025 | $250,000
Pay for Success Initiative
Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections / U.S. Department of Justice |
Principal Investigator | 2025 | $92,505
Louisiana-Mississippi Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program
Co-Principal Investigator | 2024 | $4.9 million
LHSC Impaired Driving Project
Louisiana Highway Safety Commission | Principal Investigator | 2023 | $100,000
Assessing Alternative Payment Models for Medicaid Health Providers
Louisiana Department of Health | Principal Investigator | 2023 | $125,718
Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative
Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections | Principal Investigator | 2022
| $149,940 proposed funding
Documenting Food Networks and Pathways in Coastal Louisiana: Understanding the Role
of Subsistence Harvesting in Reducing Food Insecurity and Strengthening Community
Resilience
Louisiana Sea Grant / NOAA | Co-Principal Investigator | 2022 | $175,656 | 3 years
Louisiana Partnerships for Success (PFS-SPF)
Louisiana Department of Health | Co-Principal Investigator | 2020 | $367,288
State Opioid Response II
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration | Co-Principal Investigator | 2020 | $750,000 ($150,000 to Ä¢¹½tv) | 3
years
Heritage Ranch Christian Children’s Home Evaluation Project, Phase II
Principal Investigator | 2019 | $22,000
Inland from the Coast: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Regional Climate Change Responses
National Academies of Sciences’ Gulf Research Program and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
| 2018 | $2,936,000
Moles, A., Burns, A., Matthews, A., & Tillison, A. (2025). Using GIS and web maps for community engagement on alcohol-related crashes and policy reform. In M. Leitner (Ed.), New crime modeling and mapping using geospatial technologies. Springer.
Seals, K., Stroope, J., Freightman, J., Ainsworth, L., Moles, A., & Holston, D. (2022). Empty houses, loose dogs, and engaged citizens: Lessons learned from community participatory data collection in rural areas. Health Promotion Practice. In press.
Younghee, L., Moles, A., Martin, N., & Bickham, T. (2020). Nefarious neighbors: How living near payday loan stores affects loan use. Mississippi Law Journal, 88(3), 333–372.
Moles, A., Birch, T., Chan, Y. L., Yang, D., Zhu, H., & Cherry, K. E. (2020). Community vulnerabilities and wellbeing after disaster. In K. E. Cherry & A. Gibson (Eds.), The intersection of trauma and disaster behavioral health. Springer.
Moles, A., Matthews, A., Tillison, A., & Burns, A. (2023). An epidemiological and policy analysis of Louisiana’s alcohol landscape. Presentation for the Governors Task Force on DWI, Louisiana State Capitol, February 15, 2023.
Moles, A. (2023). State strategies addressing the opioid crisis in tribal communities. Webinar presented by Single State Agencies Systems Technical Assistance, February 15, 2023.
Zhu, H., & Moles, A. (2019). Measuring individual community capacity, resilience, and recovery in three Louisiana coastal parishes. Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 4, 2019.
Yang, M., Moles, A., Chen, Z., Lim, Y., & Rhodes, J. (2019). Environmental toxic release and school suspension. Paper presented at the Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, January 16, 2019.
Aimee likes to ride her road and mountain bikes up impossible inclines and enjoys spending time with her dogs and family.