Ogechi “Cynthia” Onyeka, PhD

Dr. Onyeka is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She completed her Ph.D. In Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Onyeka is an International OCD Foundation Grant Recipient, having won the Jenike Young Investigator Award in 2024. Through her research, Onyeka seeks to understand how symptom expression and presentation may vary due to sociocultural influences and how methodologies such as community-based participatory research can ensure that different perspectives and experiences are validated for all groups. Her research is focused on factors that promote resilience for youth of color, critical consciousness, and the relationship among socio-ecological stressors, internalizing symptoms, and psychosocial outcomes for minority populations. She is also interested in identifying biopsychosocial correlates of OCD from a community-based approach, primarily among individuals of Latine/x and African descent.