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Catina Callahan O'Leary, PhD 

Catina Callahan O’Leary, PhD has been with the Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group (EPRG) since 1999. Catina graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1996, and attended the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, where she completed a Master of Social Work Degree in 1999.  In 2007, she completed a Ph.D. in Social Work at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; her dissertation, chaired by Drs. Tonya Edmond and Linda Cottler, was titled The Association of Criminal Justice System Involvement on Change in High-Risk Behaviors among Urban, Crack-Cocaine Using Women. 

Catina’s responsibilities with the EPRG focus on coordinating the group’s U.S. and international HIV prevention studies. Specifically, she manages Dr. Cottler's recently completed NIAAA-funded "Peer Intervention to Reduce HIV in Heavy Drinking Females" study, the NIDA-funded "Prevention of STD’s in Drug Using Women study, and the NIDA-funded “Deconstructing HIV Interventions for Female Offenders” study, which aims to understand salient factors associated with women’s participation in EPRG's prior HIV prevention studies.  The data from these studies has been collected; the team is focused on finalizing several publications from these datasets.  Catina also manages a new HIV prevention study, the NINR-funded “Sisters Teaching Options for Prevention” study, a two-arm intervention study comparing standard resources offered through the St. Louis Female Drug Court to a Peer-partnered Case Management intervention which aims to reduce high-risk behaviors. She has also worked closely with Dr. Cottler on two internationally based studies, the World AIDS Foundation-funded “Community Based HIV Prevention among Females at Risk in Bangalore India,” targeting female partners of heavy drinking males for an HIV prevention intervention program, and in Taipei, Taiwan, the “Collaborative MDMA and other Club Drugs Study,” which focuses on recruiting MDMA users from the community in order to understand club drug and other substance use disorders. Catina is also the Assistant to the Treasurer for the American Psychopathological Association.

 

 

 

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