Kirsten Barrett
Senior Survey Researcher

Kirsten Barrett is a senior survey researcher with methodological expertise in web and multimode surveys, questionnaire design, and secondary data analysis. She has experience in the areas of health care access and quality and services for the underserved, including those with disabilities.

Barrett plays key roles on two of Mathematica’s largest disability-related projects, the Youth Transition Demonstration and the National Beneficiary Survey. She has served as the project director on the Child Care Access Means Parent in School project and Advancing the Development of Performance Measures for Plans and Providers Serving People with Disabilities, a study to determine the validity of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems^® for people with activity limitations. Barrett has also served as the survey director on studies related to residential treatment for youth with emotional disturbances and health information technology.

Barrett serves as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Women’s Health Issues, and Health Policy. Her work has been published in Women’s Health Issues, Accountability in Research, the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, and the American Journal of Health Promotion. She has presented numerous papers at the American Association of Public Opinion Research annual conferences. Barrett holds a Ph.D. in education from Virginia Commonwealth University and an M.P.T. in physical therapy from Hahnemann University.

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