Maria Cecilia Zea, PhD

Professor of Psychology, GWU CCAS

Phone: (202) 994-6321
Fax: (202) 994-4619
Email: zea@gwu.edu
Website: http://home.gwu.edu/~zea

Current HIV/AIDS Educational Activities:

• Globalization and HIV/AIDS

Current HIV/AIDS Research Activities:

• Principal Investigator, with P. J. Poppen, C. A. Reisen, & M. Shedlin. Contextual Influences on sexual risk among Latino men who have sex with men, R01-HD046258, National Institute of Health and Human Development, 2003-2008.
• Principal Investigator, with P. J. Poppen & C. A. Reisen. Disclosure of HIV status among Latino gay men. R01 MH60545, National Institute of Mental Health, 1999-2003.
• Principal Investigator, Minority Supplement, Disclosure of HIV status among Brazilian gay men. R01 MH60545-01S1, National Institute of Mental Health, 2000-2003.
• Co-investigator, with Frank Wong (P.I.), P. J. Poppen & M. Edberg, Sexuality, HIV/Drug Use of Asian gay, bisexual, and MSM. 1 R01 DA15623, National Institute of Drug Abuse, 2002-2007.

Current HIV/AIDS Service Activities:

• Chair, University of California University-wide AIDS Research Program, Social Behavioral and Prevention Research Study Section. San Francisco, CA.

Maria Cecilia Zea, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the George Washington University, Washington DC. She joined the Clinical Program at the Department of Psychology in 1990. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology at the University of Maryland in College Park. Dr. Zea has published extensively in the area of ethnic minority psychology and more recently HIV/AIDS among Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). She is the Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded R01 projects to study Disclosure of HIV Status among Latino gay men and Contextual Factors of Sexual Risk among Latino MSM. She serves as a reviewer on NIH study sections and currently chairs the Social Behavioral and Prevention Research Study Section of the University of California University-Wide AIDS Research Program. Dr. Zea is a Fellow of Divisions 44 and 45 of the American Psychological Association and is an Associate Editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology. She has served as ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals.

Dr. Zea chairs the Faculty Senate Research Committee at GWU. Dr. Zea received the Award for Excellence in Mentorship from the National Hispanic Science Network for her mentorship of more than a dozen graduate students and several postdoctoral trainees.