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Barbara Barrett

Professor Barbara Barrett

Professor of Health Economics

  • Deputy Head of Department of Health Service & Population Research

Biography

Barbara Barrett 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.

Professor Barrett 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

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    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. 

    spilled-medication
    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

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    The TENDAI Study

    Task shifting to treat depression and HIV medication nonadherence in low resource settings

    Project status: Ongoing

    students participating in a Zonal quiz competition v2
    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 acd therapy
    Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)

    ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    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...

    FriendshipBench

    Events

    08Jan

    Professor Barbara Barrett - Inaugural lecture

    Join us in celebrating Barbara Barrett's inaugural lecture on 'A symphony of cost-effectiveness: reflections on 20 years of economic evaluations in mental...

      Research

      iStock-KHE 1800
      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. 

      spilled-medication
      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

      IMG_3481
      The TENDAI Study

      Task shifting to treat depression and HIV medication nonadherence in low resource settings

      Project status: Ongoing

      students participating in a Zonal quiz competition v2
      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 acd therapy
      Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)

      ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      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...

      FriendshipBench

      Events

      08Jan

      Professor Barbara Barrett - Inaugural lecture

      Join us in celebrating Barbara Barrett's inaugural lecture on 'A symphony of cost-effectiveness: reflections on 20 years of economic evaluations in mental...