Professor Barbara Barrett
Professor of 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 and a PhD developing methods for economic evaluations in criminal justice settings.
Barbara 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
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...