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Epidemiology
and Prevention Research Group (EPRG)
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
EPRG In the News
July 2009, NIDA T32 Training Program in Drug Abuse Epidemiology,
Services and Prevention Research Receives Renewed Funding Through
2014!
(click
here to visit NIDA T32 page)
June 2009, Dr. Carlos Zubaran, 2009
DISCA Award Recipient,
works with the EPRG developing collaborative projects between
Australia and the United States.
(Click here for Dr. Zubaran's page)
HealthStreet in the News!
May 2009,
HealthStreet
poster presented
at Improving Health WITH
Communities: The Role
of Community Engagement in Clinical and
Translational Research; a CTSA conference
supported
by the Association for Prevention
Teaching and Research and the National Center
for Research Resources, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, MD.
(click here for
poster)
Dr. Catherine Striley has
been elected to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's program, Preventing Partner Violence in
Immigrant Communities: Strengthening What Works.
(Dr. Striley's web page)
Leading
psychiatry researcher Lee Robins, PhD,
founder of
the Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology Program (MPE), dies
(click
here for article)
Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH, Director, EPRG,
named President of the American Psychopathological
Association (APPA) for the
Centennial Year, 2010
(click here for article)
Dr. Linda Cottler and work of EPRG
featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Washington University in St.
Louis Magazine
(click here for article)
RCR Resources
Ethics Mini-course
Fall 2008
Coursemaster: Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH
click here for presentations
April 2008
First Biennial ORI Conference on Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Education, Instruction, and
Training
(Information, Materials, and Presentations)
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Faculty
Dr. Linda Cottler
Dr. Catina Callahan O'Leary
Dr. Simone Cummings
Dr. Lee Hoffer
Dr. Lawrence Scheier
Dr. Catherine Striley
Staff
Arbi Ben Abdallah
Susan Bradford
Rachel Jacobs
Dr. Kit-Sang Leung
Dan Martin
Tamara Millay
Erin Murdock
Ann Schwarze
Lisa Wines
Jane Works-Conte
Jo Wright
Trainees
Serena Bezdjian, PhD
Robert Crecelius, MSW
Santosh Loganathan, MD
Lisa Merlo, PhD
Gitanjali Narayanan, PhD
Prasanthi Nattala, PhD
M. Yanina Pepino, PhD
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Our Mission Statement
The
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group (EPRG) is dedicated to:
1) Thoroughly documenting and understanding important public
health problems facing vulnerable populations with a variety of mental
disorders such as drug dependence and pathological gambling,
2) Thinking and acting boldly for those populations by offering
innovative community-based interventions,
3) Preparing future generations of scientists for productive
research careers in epidemiology, with an emphasis on behavioral risk
factors, and
4) Training staff and fellows in the responsible conduct of
science.
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Dr. John Snow
Our logo features a water pump to honor
Dr. John Snow's discovery in the 1800s that cholera can be spread by a
city's water supply.
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Previous News
Items
August 2007
EPRG Faculty and Staff Mentor NIDA
Summer Research Scholars
(click here to view story)
July 2007
Current trainee, Daniel Mamah, MD, MPE, along with
another MPE Alum, will help oversee development of DSM criteria.
(click here to
view story)
April 2007
The EPRG hosts Congressman Clay for a
collaboration meeting on community-based research
(click here to view
story)
March 2007
Cottler named President Elect of
the
American Psychopathological Association
(APPA) for its
Centennial Year
(click here to view story)
January 2006
The
EPRG is pleased to announce the publication of
Dr. Lee Hoffer’s book Junkie
Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network
(see sidebar). This ethnographic case-study chronicles the
partnership of two homeless heroin addicts as they become heroin
dealers and successfully sell heroin for over three years. The
research presents economic, social, psychological, and historic
dimensions of the business of selling heroin, with a unique
perspective on the illicit drug economy that is relevant to students
and researchers.
June 2004
The
EPRG is pleased to announce a new grant award:
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More Stories
The Washington University Record recognized the
importance of our new projects in the October 22, 2004 front page
lead story.
We
are excited to announce that the EPRG received a grant
funded by the
Center for the
Study of Ethics and Human Values at Washington University.
The funded 8 part seminar series, titled Research Considerations
among High Risk Vulnerable Populations, focused on the ethical
challenges involved in recruiting, enrolling, and retaining high
risk vulnerable populations in prevention and treatment research. We
invited presenters and discussants from across the St. Louis
community, as well as a participant from the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, to highlight these most pressing ethical issues. The
purpose of the series was to increase the opportunities for research
and health care available to these populations by providing
information to dispel myths and stereotypes regarding these
populations.
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