Professor
American University
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Brian Yates is a tenured Professor at American University, Washington DC. Most of his 104 publications and most of his research applies cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, or cost-utility analysis to formative evaluation of human services, such as youth mentoring and parenting training initiatives, prevention and treatment of substance abuse, computer-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for alcohol abuse, suicide prevention, and treatments for obesity, depression, and seasonal affective disorder. Dr. Yates teaches asynchronous online courses in self-management, personality theories, and health psychology, having also developed and taught courses in community psychology, behavioral medicine, advanced theories of personality, research methods, and program evaluation.
His primary work focuses on expand the methods of cost-inclusive evaluation to delivering the most effective human services, broadly defined, to the most people in need of those services, for the least amount of societal and monetary resources necessary. He began this work while in graduate school in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Yates continues this endeavor as a member of research teams at Yale University School of Medicine and the University at Albany (SUNY), as well as in collaboration with doctoral students at American University. He has presented on cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of human services in many countries, including the UK, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Dr. Yates and has collaborated on cost-inclusive evaluations with colleagues in the US Department of State with respect to provision of emergency assistance to LGBTQI+ individuals and organizations, religious entities, and advocates for human rights. His research applies cost-inclusive evaluation to a wide range of services, often in clinical trials, including suicide prevention for veterans and others, residential and community treatments for disadvantaged and disturbed youth, Clubhouse programs for adults with severe mental illness, psychological and surgical obesity treatments, gender-sensitive intensive inpatient treatment for opiate and cocaine abuse, and more.
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