Clare Barrington
Ph.D., MPH,
Health Behavior and Health Education
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Campus Office: 317 Rosenau Hall
Campus Phone Number: (919) 966-9009
Email: cbarring@email.unc.edu
Clare Barrington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She completed her MPH and PhD degrees in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA at Brown University. She conducts research on how the social and structural context influences on health and health behaviors, in particular HIV/AIDS among marginalized populations. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed-method social and behavioral research in diverse settings. Dr. Barington has conducted community-based research in the Dominican Republic since 1996 and has also worked throughout Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Current projects include an intervention development study with female sex workers living with HIV and their regular partners in the Dominican Republic and a mixed methods evaluation of a child survival project in Ghana. Recently, she has also started to conduct research projects with Latinos in North Carolina to improve understanding of HIV vulnerability and the lived experience of HIV/AIDS in the context of migration. Her research is published in journals including Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Health, and Sexuality, and AIDS and Behavior. She teaches courses on qualitative research and global health.
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