Barbara Ryan

Barbara Ryan has over 30 years of experience in the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention field. She has developed numerous publications and guides in the area of prevention, including College Alcohol Risk Assessment Guide: Environmental Approaches to Prevention and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s Prevention Primer. As senior editor for the Higher Education Center, she edits the newsletter Catalyst, develops case studies and the monthly e-Fact Sheets, and wrote Prevention Challenges at Community Colleges; Making the Link: Faculty and Prevention; and Field Experiences in Effective Prevention: The U.S. Department of Education’s Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grants. She has published numerous articles on prevention topics, ranging from preventing alcohol sales to minors to using local powers to control alcohol availability. She is the coauthor of A Matter of Degree Advocacy Initiative: A Project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and A Matter of Degree Initiative to Reduce Binge Drinking at Colleges and Universities: Lessons Learned.