Dr Barbara Barrett
Reader in Health Economics
Biography
Barbara Barrett joined King’s in 2002 as a research assistant, completing her PhD here under 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.
Barbara is interested in applying health economic evaluation techniques to research questions across a range of clinical areas including mental health, maternal health and healthcare in criminal justice settings.
The other main aspect to her work is education. She leads the module on Economic Evaluation in Mental Health and is the departmental education lead, ensuring both the quantity and quality of the education King's Health Economics provides in HSPR.
Research Interests
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials.
- Health economics at the intersection of physical and mental health.
- Economics of criminal justice (PhD supervision).
- Economics of school-based health care interventions (PhD supervision).
Teaching
- Health economics, economic evaluation.
Expertise and Public Engagement
- Member of RELATE policy and research advisory group.
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
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...
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
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...