Eric Houston MA, PhD

Eric Houston is a research assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Community & Global Health. His research focuses on the interplay between psychosocial stressors, cognitive functioning, and emotion regulation in influencing health outcomes. Health outcomes examined in his research have included HIV treatment adherence, substance abuse, sexual behaviors, mental health functioning, and the use of adaptive coping strategies. Houston’s recent research investigates the underlying role of cognitive processes related to attention and memory in shaping health behaviors and their potential as targets for novel interventions designed to address health disparities. Much of his work has examined the impact of technologically-based approaches to help people attain health-related goals when faced with multiple stressors.

Houston received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Houston has been awarded grants for his research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, including AIDS and Behavior, Psychology & Health, Journal of Health Psychology, and the Journal of Urban Health.