Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Francisco J. Barrera, MD, MS, is a research fellow at the CPRP. He obtained his Medical Doctor degree at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico and his Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At the CPRP, he is currently in charge of participant screening in the REACH IV randomized clinical trial, processing several databases for analytical purposes, collaborating in a cost-effectiveness project derived from the Total Health randomized clinical trial, and working in a systematic review assessing the existent body of evidence related to anxiety treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease. He is interested in using epidemiological methods to understand better the psychiatric disorders and develop novel interventions to improve clinical outcomes. He is also interested in health disparities within psychiatry.
