Nancy Barnett
Associate Professor (Research):
Department of Community Health
Phone: 401-863-6649
Nancy_Barnett@Brown.EDU
Biography
Dr. Barnett is an Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Community Health. She completed her graduate training at the University of Washington and her predoctoral and postdoctoral training at Brown University. Her primary areas of interest are 1) developing and testing brief interventions for substance use among adolescents and young adults, 2) how change occurs following alcohol-related critical events, and 3) the use of internet-based and transdermal technologies for the assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorders. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to investigate brief interventions for adolescents and young adults, to investigate naturalistic change in college students, and to develop a contingency management intervention for alcohol abuse using transdermal alcohol detection technology. Her recent publications have focused on efficacy, mediators, and moderators of brief interventions for adolescents and young adults, predictors of change following alcohol-related experiences, and characteristics of college students who have specific alcohol-related events. Dr. Barnett has served on numerous scientific review committees for the Center for Scientific Review and NIAAA, chaired the 2009 annual conference of the Research Society on Alcoholism, and is the Associate Editor of the Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application (DATA).
Interests
Dr. Barnett's research has been funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to investigate brief interventions for adolescents and young adults, to investigate naturalistic change in college students, and to develop a contingency management intervention for alcohol abuse using transdermal alcohol detection technology. Her recent publications have focused on efficacy, mediators, and moderators of brief interventions for adolescents and young adults, predictors of change following alcohol-related experiences, and characteristics of college students who have specific alcohol-related events. In addition to her research, Dr. Barnett is a Co-Investigator on seven other research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, including alcohol treatment outcome trials for adolescents, college students, and emergency room and trauma patients, an assessment study of drinking milestones in adolescents, an investigation of treatment processes in Motivational Interviewing, and a study of the dissemination of evidence-based treatments for substance use.
Degrees
PhD
Awards
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Training Program, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, 1998-1999.
Sharon Chauncey Award, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, 1999.
Affiliations
American Psychological Association
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy
Research Society on Alcoholism
Funded Research
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): "Naturalistic Influences on Alcohol Problems in College"
9/30/03 –8/31/08, $3,290,694 total costs.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA):
"Contingency Management for Alcohol Abuse Using Transdermal Alcohol Detection."
9/15/08 – 8/31/10, $417,376 total costs.
NIAAA: "Motivational Interviews for Mandated ETOH Education."
04/01/00 - 03/31/05; $549,403 total direct costs.
