Professor Barbara Barrett
Professor of Health Economics
- Deputy Head of Department of Health Service & Population Research
Biography
Barbara Barrett is Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Services & Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.
Barbara joined King’s in 2002 as a research assistant, completing her PhD here under Professor Sarah Byford and becoming a member of academic staff in 2008. She has undergraduate and post graduate degrees in economics and health economics from the University of Birmingham and a PhD developing methods for economic evaluations in criminal justice settings.
She is interested in applying health economic evaluation techniques to research questions across a range of clinical areas including mental health, healthcare in criminal justice settings, interventions at the intersection of mental and physical health and global mental health.
The other main aspect to her work is education. She is education lead for HSPR and has led a module on Economic Evaluation in Mental Health for post graduate students for many years.
Research interests
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials
- Policy reports
- Systematic reviews
Teaching
- Health economics
- Economic evaluation
Research
King's Health Economics
King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad.
STOP-D (Sertraline TO prevent Post-TBI Depression)
A multi-centre placebo-controlled double blind RCT to investigate the use of sertraline in reducing depressive symptoms in traumatic brain injury patients.
Project status: Ongoing
The TENDAI Study
Task shifting to treat depression and HIV medication nonadherence in low resource settings
Project status: Ongoing
African Youth in Mind
African Youth in Mind focuses on adapting and testing a stepped care intervention for youth with depression & anxiety in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Project status: Ongoing
Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
News
New study finds mental health treatment for serious offenders could reduce harm to society and save money
Prisoners convicted of serious violent offences were found to be less aggressive and less likely to reoffend following a mental health intervention which...
New funding for UK mental health research in under-served areas
The NIHR is investing almost £55 million in five additional Mental Health Research Groups (MHRGs). King’s College London researchers will collaborate on three...
Professor Barbara Barrett delivers inaugural lecture “A symphony of cost-effectiveness: reflections on 20 years of economic evaluations in mental health"
On Wednesday 8 January, Professor Barbara Barrett delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Health Economics.
Professor Melanie Abas receives £2.75m in UKRI funding
Professor Melanie Abas, with members of a new Global Health Research Group, has received £2.75m in NIHR funding to learn how best to treat depression and...
Research
King's Health Economics
King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad.
STOP-D (Sertraline TO prevent Post-TBI Depression)
A multi-centre placebo-controlled double blind RCT to investigate the use of sertraline in reducing depressive symptoms in traumatic brain injury patients.
Project status: Ongoing
The TENDAI Study
Task shifting to treat depression and HIV medication nonadherence in low resource settings
Project status: Ongoing
African Youth in Mind
African Youth in Mind focuses on adapting and testing a stepped care intervention for youth with depression & anxiety in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Project status: Ongoing
Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
News
New study finds mental health treatment for serious offenders could reduce harm to society and save money
Prisoners convicted of serious violent offences were found to be less aggressive and less likely to reoffend following a mental health intervention which...
New funding for UK mental health research in under-served areas
The NIHR is investing almost £55 million in five additional Mental Health Research Groups (MHRGs). King’s College London researchers will collaborate on three...
Professor Barbara Barrett delivers inaugural lecture “A symphony of cost-effectiveness: reflections on 20 years of economic evaluations in mental health"
On Wednesday 8 January, Professor Barbara Barrett delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Health Economics.
Professor Melanie Abas receives £2.75m in UKRI funding
Professor Melanie Abas, with members of a new Global Health Research Group, has received £2.75m in NIHR funding to learn how best to treat depression and...