Diana BARGER
Université de Bordeaux, Institut de Santé Publique, d'Epidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED) 146, rue Léo Saignat – CS61292 - 33076 - Bordeaux
Tel: +33 (0) 5 57 57 92 91 (work)
Current position: PhD Candidate in Public Health, Epidemiology - Doctorante en santé publique, épidémiologie
Diploma(s): MPH, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BA, Tufts University
Affiliation(s): Doctoral Network of Public Health
Curriculum
Diana holds an MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2012) and a BA with Magna Cum Laude honors in political science from Tufts University (2008).
Previously, Diana worked as an International Project Coordinator supporting the FP-7 funded European collaboration of cohorts of people living with HIV, COHERE in EuroCoord between 2013-2015. She has also served at both Save the Children International and the United Nations Population Fund as an independent consultant.
Research
Diana Barger is currently a PhD candidate (thèse de sciences) in public health specialising in epidemiology at the University of Bordeaux’s Institute of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development (ISPED).
Her doctoral research is being supervised by Professors Fabrice Bonnet and François Dabis within the Inserm Bordeaux Population Health Centre (U-1219). It focusses on developing and deploying new technology to better collect patient-reported outcomes (PRO), including quality of life, in patients in long-term, hospital-based, HIV care. By identifying risk profiles for those with poorer quality of life, this work ultimately aims to inform and improve care for those aging with HIV. She was awarded a grant in 2016 from the French NGO Sidaction to carry out this work. This research has also been granted seed funding from the ANRS (French REcherche Nord & sud Sida-HIV Hépatites).
Expertise
She has experience conducting economic evaluations and M&E as well as specific expertise in the field of sexual and reproductive health. She is interested in the development, validation and deployment patient-reported outcomes (both in controlled and routine settings), health services and health evaluation and outcomes research.
Courses
Diana acts a Distance Learning Tutor in the Epidemiology Programme at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She also hold a TA position at the University of Bordeaux and is involved in the Masters of Public Health (M1) distance learning programme and the Masters in Health Promotion (M2) (i-PROMs) offered at the University in Bordeaux in Spanish.