Linda B. Cottler Receives Rema Lapouse Award for Contributions to Epidemiology and Control of Mental Disorders (UF College of Public Health and Health Professions)

Linda B. Cottler Receives Rema Lapouse Award for Contributions to Epidemiology and Control of Mental Disorders

The Mental Health, Epidemiology and Applied Statistics sections of the American Public Health Association have selected Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE, for the Rema Lapouse Award for Achievement in Epidemiology, Mental Health and Applied Public Health Statistics.

Established in 1972, the Rema Lapouse Award is given to an outstanding psychiatric epidemiology scientist in recognition of “significant contributions to the scientific understanding of the epidemiology and control of mental disorders.”

“She is truly one of the treasures of our field and is well-deserving of joining the group of distinguished awardees,” said nominator Catherine Woodstock Striley, Ph.D., MSW, MPE, an associate professor in the UF department of epidemiology.

Cottler, the dean’s professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine and PHHP’s associate dean for research, is an internationally recognized expert in psychiatric epidemiology. She is known for developing reliable, widely used assessments for substance use and other psychiatric disorders in the general population, and for her contribution to the nosology of substance abuse and dependence, especially in critical areas such as prescription drugs, club drugs, inhalants, cocaine and marijuana, and gambling disorder.

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