Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN
Dean, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN, was appointed Dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in May 2009. Dr. McCauley is a national leader in the area of research on environmental exposures and conducts interdisciplinary research using participatory research models to study pesticide exposures among minority communities. Her work aims to identify culturally appropriate interventions to decrease the impact of environmental and occupational health hazards in vulnerable populations, including workers and young children. A major goal of her research is to disseminate findings in ways that are understandable and meaningful to clinicians and migrant farm workers.
She previously served as the Associate Dean for Research and Nightingale Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. McCauley's leadership roles at University of Pennsylvania include: director of the Office of Nursing Research, School of Nursing; member of the MPH advisory committee and steering committee for the Center for Public Health Initiatives; associate scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine; member of the Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, School of Medicine; and director, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing, School of Nursing.
McCauley is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Sigma Theta Tau Honorary Nursing Society, the American Nurses Association and the American Academy of Nursing.
She also serves in an advisory capacity for the Institute of Medicine, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
She received a bachelor of nursing degree from the University of North Carolina, and in 1979 she received a master’s in nursing from Emory. In 1988, she earned a doctorate degree in environmental health and epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati.
