Dianne C. Barker

Dianne C. Barker is President of Barker Bi-Coastal Health Consultants, Inc. (BBHC), which is a health policy consulting firm based in Los Angeles. She also serves as a principal investigator on several tobacco and obesity-related research and evaluation projects administered by the Public Health Institute. For more than two decades, Dianne has designed and conducted various studies examining how environmental influences and public and private policies affect tobacco quitting behavior among older adolescents, young adults, and pregnant women. Her most recent research focuses on the emerging electronic cigarette market.

A demographer by training, Dianne holds a Bachelor of Science in child development and family relations from the University of Rhode Island, and earned her Master of Health Science in population dynamics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1987.

Email: dcbarker@earthlink.net