Biography
Dean Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN, holds the Jane and Robert Cizik Distinguished Chair and the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair in Nursing Education Leadership. She is a tenured Associate Professor with expertise in public health nursing, adolescent health, HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention, intervention development, randomized controlled trials, mobile technology, and youth experiencing homelessness. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Health Promotion and Research at the UTHealth School of Public Health (SPH), where she currently teaches Public Health Nursing and Research Methods.
Dr. Santa Maria has served as the principal investigator and program director on research and demonstration grants on multiple NIH-, CDC-, ACF-, and foundation-funded prevention projects. With wide-ranging experience working in underserved communities in the U.S. and abroad, she currently is conducting HIV prevention and stress reduction research with youth and young adults experiencing homelessness.