Biosketch-Barbara Berney UPH Hunter College CUNY

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH[JG1]

NAME Barbara Berney		POSITION TITLE Assistant Professor
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE (if applicable)		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
Reed College, Portland, OR	BA		1967	Political Science
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA	MPH		1973	Health Administration
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	Certificate		1975	Environmental Mgmt
Boston University, Boston, MA	PhD		2003	Health Policy

A. Positions and Honors. List in chronological order previous positions, concluding with your present position. List any honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee.

Academic Appointments:

1994-2001 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University

2003- Assistant Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College

Non-Academic Experience

1973-1976Environmental Health Specialist, Los Angeles County Health Department

1976-1979 Policy Analyst, United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Funds

1980-1983 Director, Occupational Health Education Center for Women and Minority Workers, Urban Environment Conference

1984-1989 Consultant, Barbara Berney Consulting

1991-1994 Project Director, Boston University School of Public Health

1994-1995 Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

1995-2002 Consultant, Barbara Berney Consulting

Professional Memberships

1985-2002 Massachusetts Public Health Association: Chair, Legislative Committee

1972-present Member, American Public Health Association: Governing Board (2000-2002), Environment Section Council (1997-1999), Co-chair Women's Caucus Program Committee (1978); Task Force on Occupational and Environmental Disease Compensation (1980)

2000-2002 Massachusetts DEP Hazardous Waste Advisory Committee

Honors

1971-1972 U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship

1989-1991 Pew Fellow

Berney, Barbara

B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

Berney B, Nagin, D. Public Funding for Worker Education in Occupational Health in the 1990's: Developing a Pattern for Disease Prevention. Landrigan PA and Selicoff IJ, eds. New York Academy of Sciences, 1989.

Bailar JC., III, Needleman J, Berney B, McGuiness JM, editors, Assessing Risks to Health: Methodological Approaches. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1993.

Berney B. Round and Round It Goes: The Epidemiology of Childhood Lead Poisoning, 1950-1990. Milbank Quarterly 71:1, 1993. pp 3-39. Reprinted in Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York University Press, 2000.

Berney B. Epidemiology of Childhood Lead Poisoning in Childhood Lead Poisoning. Siegfried M.Pueschel, James Linakis, and Angela Anderson, eds. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing, 1996

Berney B. The Uranium Miners and The Marshallese in Observational Studies in Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments--Final Report. USGPO, 1996.

Berney B, Needleman J, Kovner C. Factors Influencing the Use of Registered Nurse Overtime in Hospitals, 1995-2000. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, in press.

Berney B. Technical Assitance: Providing Grassroots Groups Access to Scientific and Technical Information. New Solutions, in press.

C. Research Support

"Administrative Decision Making about the Use of Nurse Overtime"

Principle Investigator, Barbara Berney

Agency: Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York

Period: 7/03-7/04

The objectives of this study are: Examine how hospital management staffs for periods of peak RN demand and how and why they decide among staffing alternatives including overtime, per diem, contract and other nurse-staffing strategies. Examine perceived impact on patient safety, staff turnover and staff satisfaction. Compare costs of strategies.

“Hospital Nurses’ Working Conditions and Patient Outcomes”

Consultant, Barbara Berney

Agency: Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research, R01 HS 11988

Period: 9/01-9/04p Support 05/03-09/04

The objectives of this study are: Examine the relationship between adverse outcomes and use of overtime and contract nurses; adapt methods used to measure other conditions in the nurses’ work environment affecting staffing and workload in unit-level studies for use in hospital-level studies; and examine the causal pathways through which elements of the work environment interact and influence patient outcomes.