Dr. Barry is an NIH/NIDA T32 postdoctoral research fellow at the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and a member of the play2PREVENT lab, which develops and evaluates evidence-based digital health games to promote youth wellbeing and prevent risk behaviors.

Her research focuses on adolescent mental health and substance misuse prevention, with an emphasis on community-engaged methods, social determinants of health, and implementation science. Her graduate and postdoc work at Emory contributed to a cluster-randomized trial testing a multi-level intervention to prevent drug use and promote wellbeing in rural reservation-based communities (Connect for Prevention).

She earned her PhD and MPH in Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences from Emory University and a Bachelor's in Psychology with a certificate in Global Health & Health Policy from Princeton. Before graduate school, she worked at Duke University on longitudinal studies of maternal exposures and child development. During her master's program, she worked at the CDC on a randomized trial evaluating an intervention to support families and children living in poverty (Legacy for Children™).