JANUARY 8, 2027
Caroline M. Barry, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NIDA T32 Science of Co-Occurring Disorders
Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
About the Presentation:
About the Presenter: Dr. Caroline Barry is a NIDA T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth. Her research focuses on adolescent mental health and substance misuse prevention, with an emphasis on community-engaged methods, social determinants of health, and implementation science. Her graduate and postdoctoral work at Emory University contributed to a cluster-randomized trial evaluating a multi-level intervention to prevent alcohol use, cannabis use, vaping, and prescription opioid misuse among adolescents in rural reservation-based communities (PIs: Kelli Komro, Doug Livingston, Juli Skinner; see Connect for Prevention). She was also a predoctoral fellow on a NIDA T32 training grant in advanced data analytics to end drug-related harms (PIs: Hannah Cooper, Lance Waller, Abeed Sarker). At Dartmouth, Dr. Barry works with Drs. Sarah Lord and Lynn Fiellin as part of the play2PREVENT lab, which develops and evaluates evidence-based digital health games to promote youth wellbeing and prevent risk behaviors. She is committed to community partnership in research and advancing sustainable, evidence-based strategies that support youth mental health and delay the initiation and escalation of substance use.
Dr. Barry earned her PhD and MPH in Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences from Emory University and her Bachelor’s in Psychology with a certificate in Global Health & Health Policy from Princeton University. Prior to graduate school, she worked at Duke University on longitudinal studies of maternal exposures and child development, and during her MPH, contributed to a CDC randomized trial of a parenting intervention to support families and children living in poverty.