Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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Linda Bauer Cottler, PhD,
MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO , Director of
the EPRG, the Center for Community Based Research and the Master of
Psychiatric Epidemiology program. Her NIH funding has been in two major
areas: nosology/classification research on substance abuse and dependence
(specifically MDMA, crack/cocaine, and prescription drug use) and public
health psychiatry, in particular, community based HIV prevention studies.
Her studies have included underrepresented populations such as African
Americans living in poverty, females who use crack/cocaine, injection drug
users and female offenders. Dr. Cottler has studied the effectiveness of
the Health Belief Model to change high risk drinking and substance use
behaviors as well as high risk sexual behaviors. Interventions, delivered
by peer educators, have been found to be more successful at changing high
risk drug use, than high risk sexual behaviors. Her research, which has
been funded since 1989, has totalled over $40 million. Dr. Cottler has
served on two National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panels to study the
Social and Economic Impact of Pathological Gambling and the data on
Firearm Injuries.
In 1997, Dr. Cottler received the Missouri Public Health Association's W.
Scott Johnson Award for public health service and leadership in Missouri;
in 1998, she received the Missouri Public Health Association Publication
Award for work in HIV prevention. In 2001, she received both the WU
Academic Women’s Network Mentor Award and the BU School of Public Health
Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2004, she accepted the Outstanding Faculty
Mentor Award from the Post-doc Society at Washington University School of
Medicine. In 2008, Dr. Cottler will receive an inaugural Distinguished
Faculty Award for Community Based Research from the School of Medicine.
Dr. Cottler is Director of
an NIMH Post-Doctoral Training Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Director of a NIDA Pre and Post-Doctoral Training Program in Comorbidity
and Biostatistics, and PI of a Fogarty International Center Training
Program at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in
Bangalore India. She also has a club drug study in Taiwan and an HIV
prevention study in Bangalore India. She is a charter member of the NIDA-K
IRG, and reviews for numerous journals. She was a 2006-2007 ELAM fellow.
She will be President of APPA in the centennial year, 2010.
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group 
