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Paul G. Barnett

Paul G. Barnett, PhD

Consulting Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy
Director at the Health Economics Resource Center
Associate at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research

VA Palo Alto Health Care System
795 Willow Road (152)
Menlo Park, CA 94025

paul.barnett@va.gov
(650) 617-2630 (voice)
(650) 617-2667 (fax)
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Research Interests

cost-effectiveness of health care inventions; determination of the cost of health care; economic modeling in support of health care policy decisions; cost-effectiveness of treatments for substance abuse and psychiatric disorders

Bio

Paul Barnett conducts collaborative research with other Stanford faculty on the cost-effectiveness of treatments for heart disease, lung cancer, and substance abuse disorders. He directs the Health Economic Resource Center, a national center on health economics research funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also the health economist for the Treatment Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco. His health services research on substance abuse treatment focuses on the cost-effectiveness of maintenance therapies for opiate addiction.

Stanford Affiliations

Health Research and Policy

Other Affiliations

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Publications

Effect of Treatment Interruption and Intensification of Antiretroviral Therapy on Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced HIV
Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.
The Concurrent Validity and Responsiveness of the Health Utilities Index (HUI 3) Among Patients with Advanced HIV/AIDS
Health-related Quality of Life in a Randomized Trial of Antiretroviral Therapy for Advanced HIV Disease

Research

F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging in the Management of Patients with Solitary Pulmonary Nodules: An Economic Sub-study

Topics

Disease
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Health and Medicine
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Health policy