Professor of Medicine, Health and Society; Professor of Psychology
Hector Myers, PhD. has published extensively on biobehavioral and psychosocial factors contributing to ethnic disparities in health & mental health. He has maintained an active collaborative program of research including the first neurobehavioral sequelae of HIV/AIDS in African American men, on one of the largest longitudinal studies of HIV-positive women and their partners, on a clinical trial of a risk reduction intervention for women with histories of child sexual abuse, and on the NIMH collaborative multi-site trial of a risk reduction intervention for HIV-serodiscordant African American couples.
Dr. Myers has also collaborated on several large clinical trials of Transcendental Meditation intervention with African American adults with hypertension, heart disease and diabetes, on a pilot randomized clinical trial testing the efficacy of Mindfulness Meditation and immune status in HIV/AIDS, as well as on an NIMH-funded multi-site clinical trial testing for ethnic differences in genetic and psychosocial factors affecting treatment response to Citalopram in adults with uncomplicated major depression.