Caroline Barry

Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
Caroline Barry

Bio

Caroline is a PhD candidate in the department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University. She is interested in mental health promotion and suicide prevention, and her research investigates social/contextual determinants of mental health and substance misuse among adolescents. She is currently working under Professor Kelli Komro’s mentorship on multi-level interventions, community-based participatory research, and increasing adolescents' access to mental health care.

Caroline completed her Bachelors in Psychology with a certificate in Global Health & Health Policy at Princeton and Master of Public Health at Emory. She then worked at Duke University Medical Center on a set of longitudinal cohort studies that examined maternal health behaviors and child developmental outcomes, including cognition and mental health. She also assisted CDC’s Child Development Studies team in evaluating interventions to promote healthy development and resilience among youth in families experiencing poverty.

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Areas of Interest

  • Adolescent Health/Child Health
  • Behavior and Health
  • Community Based Research
  • Health Outcomes
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Mental Health
  • Health Disparities
  • Public Health Policy
  • Machine Learning
  • Research Methods
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Use/Harm Reduction
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Causal Inference

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University
  • MPH, Emory University