BA - Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio
MS - Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, New York
DrPH - Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland

Sharon E. Barrett, DrPH, MS is an Associate Professor in the School of Community Health and Policy’s Public and Allied Health Program. She earned my Master’s degree from Columbia University School of Social Work, in New York. Dr. Barrett is an alumnus of Morgan’s Doctorate of Public Health program and is a member of the Beta Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health.

Dr. Barrett brings to Morgan over forty-five years of leadership in public, nonprofit and private sectors in the areas of program development, administration, evaluation, and public health practice. In her last Federal Public Health Service position, Dr. Barrett created and served as the Director of the Office of Minority and Women's Health in the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Primary Health Care. She has focused her energies on creating and implementing programs and policies that benefit the poorest, and the most disenfranchised populations and their communities.

She became part of the SCHP faculty having retired from the Federal Public Health Service and after running her own consulting firm. Dr. Barrett’s background Public Health focus is in the areas of policy, systems thinking, health services management and planning, and health and health policy literacy. Dr. Barrett continues to examine public health practice and policy through an environmental and social justice lens. She has been teaching in the SCHP at the Master’s and the Doctoral level since 2015 and serving as Dissertation Chair to a number of doctoral students.

Dr. Barrett’s research interests continue to focus on health literacy, health policy literacy and community engagement, health disparities, and student engagement of adult learners.

Publications

Barrett, S., Ochapa, M., Warren, T. Digital health literacy in community engagement: Impacts and implications. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 34(1) 425-430. DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2023.0027. Published in the February 2023 Black  History Publication.

Ochapa, M., Baptiste-Roberts, K., Barrett, S. E., Animasahun, A., Bronner, Y. (2023). The role of doulas in providing breastfeeding support during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Breastfeeding Journal, 18(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00558-0

Olateju, O. H., Barrett, S.E. (2022). An evaluation of Maryland providers’ knowledge, comfort, likelihood of prescribing PrEP, and perceived barriers and facilitators to prescribing PrEP.  Clin Immunol Res. 6(1):1-7.

Olateju, O.H., Barrett, S.E. An evaluation of Maryland providers’ knowledge,comfort, likelihood of prescribing PrEP, and perceived barriers and facilitators to prescribing PrEP. Submitted to Archives of Public Health. 04 August 2022, UT

Rollins, R., Gribble, A., Barrett, S., and Powell, C. (2017). Who is in your waiting room? Health care professionals as culturally responsive and trauma-informed first responders to human trafficking. AMA J Ethics, 17(l): 63-71. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.pfor2-1701