Steven S. Coughlin

1957

Steven S. Coughlin, PhD, MPH, health researcher, ethicist, writer, and artist, received his PhD degree in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987 and his MPH degree from San Diego State University in 1984. He is a senior epidemiologist in the Environmental Epidemiology Service in the Department of Veterans Affairs and an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University. Previously he was a senior cancer epidemiologist at the CDC, and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Program in Public Health Ethics at Tulane University. Dr. Coughlin is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and Editor-in-Chief of The Open Health Services and Policy Journal (www.bentham.org/open/tohspj/index.htm). He is the author or coauthor of more than 190 articles and the author or co-editor of several books including Ethics and Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 1996, 2nd edition 2008), Case Studies in Public Health Ethics (American Public Health Association, 1997), The Principle of Equal Abundance (Xlibris, 2007), The Nature of Principles (Xlibris, 2008, www.books.google.com), and Ethics in Epidemiology and Public Health Practice (Quill Publications, 1997, www.books.google.com). In additon, he has produced numerous photographs and other artworks. Dr. Coughlin's scientific accomplishments include completing the first two case-control studies and the first cohort mortality study of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) carried out an

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