What Do you Get When you Combine an Epidemiologist and an Evaluator? A Study in Duality

Epidemiologists and evaluators provide a foundation for prevention programming by collecting, managing, and interpreting a program's data. Therefore, it is critical that program staff reflect on how to work with them for the best outcomes to the program. Participants in the field of prevention will hear from national experts, Drs. Kyle Barrington (evaluator) and Sandeep Kasat (epidemiologist) on the respective roles and responsibilities of those data collectors and how they help build the prevention program. 

 

Kyle Barrington, SSW PTTC Consultant

 

 Trainer - Kyle Barrington, Ph.D.

 

 

Kyle Barrington, Ph.D., has over 30 years’ experience in the field of substance abuse prevention and treatment. His experiences include being a substance abuse counselor, director of a dual-diagnosis hospital unit for adults and youth, director of an emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, and evaluator for local and statewide organizations. Dr. Barrington has extensive experience evaluating the impact of alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs and practices. He has five published, peer-reviewed, articles, has been quoted in several scholarly articles, and has conducted over 200 program evaluations.

 

Sandeep Kasat, SSW PTTC Consultant

 

 Trainer - Sandeep Kasat, Ph.D.

 

 

Sandeep Kasat, Ph.D., is a senior epidemiologist and Westat Senior Study Director with 15 years of experience in behavioral health epidemiology, especially as it relates to substance misuse prevention. He has assisted all SAMHSA-funded states, jurisdictions, and tribes in using epidemiologic data and analyses to highlight disparities and at-risk populations, create data-guided plans, select evidence-based strategies, and monitor and evaluate results to assess prevention progress. As director of epidemiology on the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) training and technical assistance contract, he assisted SAMHSA's prevention grantees in applying substance-related consequence, consumption pattern, and risk and protective factor data to prevention planning and decision making. Before joining Westat, Dr. Kasat was a principal investigator for SAMHSA's State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) contract. He also served as the substance abuse epidemiologist on Maine's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG). Before coming to the United States, Dr. Kasat was a practicing physician in the Department of Skin, Venereal, and Infectious Diseases at the Government Medical College in Nagpur, India.

 

Iris Smith, South Southwest PTTC Moderator - Iris Smith, Ph.D.

Iris Smith, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, leading graduate courses in program evaluation, substance abuse, social determinants of health, and the Mental Health Capson course. In addition to teaching, Iris also served as principal or co-investigator for numerous studies on the prenatal effects of alcohol and other drugs and treatment and interventions with women who misuse substances, including a treatment demonstration grant for pregnant and parenting addicted women and their children. Previously, Dr. Smith served as the Coordinator for the CAPT Southeast Resource Team.

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Starts: Dec. 12, 2019 2:00 pm
Ends: Dec. 12, 2019 3:30 pm
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