Rate My Professor Steven Coughlin

Steven Coughlin is a Professor and Program Director of the Master of Science in Epidemiology program at Augusta University. He holds academic appointments in the Department of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and the Medical College of Georgia, as well as additional appointments in the College of Nursing and the Graduate School. Coughlin earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and an M.P.H. from San Diego State University in 1984.

His research focuses on cancer prevention and control, cancer survivorship, cardiometabolic health, cardiovascular epidemiology, women Veterans’ health, community-based participatory research, health disparities, and social determinants of health. Coughlin has authored or co-authored hundreds of scientific articles and several books, including Black Health in the South published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2023. He previously held faculty positions at institutions including the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Tulane University, Georgetown University, and the University of Massachusetts, and served as a senior epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Coughlin is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and received the Research Integrity Award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology in 2014. He serves on editorial boards including Annals of Epidemiology and has contributed to university committees on promotion and tenure as well as graduate program oversight.