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Paul G. Barnett, Ph.D.
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Paul G. Barnett, Ph.D.
Biography
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Barnett conducts economic studies to improve value of treatments for HIV, hepatitis C, heart disease, tobacco use, and other substance use disorders. Additional research interests are the improvement of health economic methods and data, and more efficient delivery of health care.
He is a health economist and former director (1999-2015) of the Health Economics Resource Center, the national center that supports economic research in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He serves as health economist for the VA HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation, the VA Cooperative Studies Program, and the Treatment Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
He is also Consulting Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University Medical School.
Barnett serves on the steering committees of the following VA initiatives: HSR&D Cyberseminar Program, HSR&D Evidence Synthesis Program
Academic Title
- Health Economist, Health Economics Resource Center. Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) and Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center
- Consulting Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine
Education
- BS, University of California, Davis
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
- Costs and cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment
- Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions
- Determining the cost of health care in the absence of billing data
- De-implementation of low-value health care
