Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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Cottler's CV
Linda Bauer Cottler, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology in the
Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in
St. Louis, MO. She is Director of the EPRG, and the
Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology
(MPE) program as well as the WU CTSA Center for Community Based Research.
Dr. Cottler's
NIH funding has been in two major areas. First, the work has focused
on the development of reliable tools to assess addiction to drugs,
alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, gambling, and the internet), and risk factors
for addiction; these tools are used internationally. She has led the
DIS Training Center and
SAM Training since the early
1980s. Research in this area has also focused on
nosological/classification studies of substance abuse and dependence
(specifically MDMA, crack/cocaine, inhalant and prescription drug use).
Second, Dr. Cottler's studies have focused on community based peer
delivered interventions to change behaviors associated with HIV and
STDs. She and her team have worked with underrepresented populations
including out of treatment crack cocaine and heroin users, seriously heavy
drinkers, injection drug users, prescription drug misusers, and inmate
populations. A special emphasis of her work has been changing high risk
behaviors among women who use drugs, and who are in the criminal justice
system.
Recently, Dr. Cottler and her team have expanded their community focus to
the WU CTSA Center for Community Based Research.
HealthStreet, originally funded by NIDA, is now the hub for
street outreach to link the entire community to research opportunities at
WU. The community Cottler works with extends to other countries as well;
she has worked internationally as a consultant to the WHO since 1987, as
well as conducted her own studies in Sydney, Taipei, and Bangalore.
Her research, which has been funded since 1989 primarily by NIDA, has
totaled over $45 million.
Dr. Cottler has received awards for her mentoring role including the WU
Academic Women’s Network Mentor Award, the BU School of Public Health
Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from
the Post-doc Society at Washington University School of Medicine. She has
accepted awards for public health service and leadership from the Missouri
Public Health Association and for community based research from the School
of Medicine. 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.
Dr. Cottler is the former Director of a 28-year NIMH Post-Doctoral
Training Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is 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 has reviewed for numerous journals and NIH institutes, was a
2006-2007 ELAM fellow and is the APPA's Centennial 2010 President.
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group 
