Education

PhD Epidemiology, Yale University, 1989
BA Psychology, Antioch College, 1978

Contact

206-221-3124
barkas@uw.edu

Bio

Dr. Barkan is a Senior Research Scientist and the Associate Director of Research at Partners for Our Children (POC), a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, the University of Washington School of Social Work, and private sector funding. POC’s mission is to improve the lives of children and families who are involved with or at risk of being involved with the child welfare system. Her work is focused on child welfare systems research and the development and evaluation of programs that aim to improve the lives of child welfare involved children and families. She has over 25 years of experience working in the field of epidemiology and parent and child health and has worked within and across community, academic, private, and government settings on research and evaluation efforts focused on HIV/AIDS; the elimination of disparities in health and wellness; social determinants of health; parent and child health; community-based, collaborative intervention research and evaluation; child welfare; and, examining facilitators and barriers to disseminating evidence-based practices to the field so that they are received by those who most need them.