Linda Bullock

Co-Investigator
Faculty Home Page
lbullock@missouri.edu

After completing bachelor and master's degrees in nursing from Texas Woman's University, Dr. Bullock obtained a doctorate in public health from the University of Otago in New Zealand. She is now a Professor at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Her research was the first to provide empirical evidence on the connection between abuse during pregnancy and infant birth weight. She has been awarded two federally funded R01s investigating and testing an innovative nurse-delivered telephone social support intervention to reduce smoking, and to improve developmental outcomes in infants exposed to smoking and domestic violence. She is also currently a co-investigator on a multi-site federally funded R01 investigating whether a structured empowerment intervention delivered by prenatal home visitors to women experiencing intimate partner violence can help keep women safer and improve infant outcomes up to two years post-delivery. For over 20 years, she has received research funding from the New Zealand Health Research Council, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institute of Child and Human Development, the University of Missouri, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Dr. Bullock and Dr. Everett have developed a Missouri Model of Smoking Cessation for women of reproductive age and are currently presenting training workshops for health care providers throughout Missouri.

She has published widely in both nursing and interdisciplinary journals including Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and has mentored both master's and doctoral students in the area of intimate partner violence during pregnancy and smoking cessation techniques. She is an active participant in the American and Missouri Nurses Associations, Sigma Theta Tau, the American Public Health Association, the Nursing Research Consortium on Violence & Abuse, and the Nursing Network on Violence & Abuse, International.