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Barabara Vann
Project Director

Barbara Vann has more than 20 years of experience in the public health, medical, and science communications fields. Her background includes all aspects of publishing—from researching, writing, and layout and design, to marketing, advertising, and fulfillment.

As a writer, her byline has appeared on more than 150 articles, in both popular magazines and scholarly journals. As a managing editor, she previously oversaw the startup and continued production of four publications, including two peer-review journals on neurology and ophthalmology.

Since 1993, she has managed publications development for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s National Alcohol Education Project (NAEP). She is managing editor of NIAAA’s peer-review journal, Alcohol Research & Health. Whenever possible she continues to hone her writing skills by authoring the Alcohol Alert bulletin, a quarterly newsletter for people in the alcoholism treatment community, and she coordinates writing and technical editing for a wide variety of public and professional educational materials. Under her stewardship, the NAEP publications have garnered five prestigious Blue Pencil awards in recognition of editorial and design excellence.

Ms. Vann currently is the project director for NAEP, overseeing all aspects of information dissemination. She is involved in bringing research findings to a broad audience, using a variety of mediums—publications, conference exhibits, graphic arts, and Web-based materials.

Since 2004, Ms. Vann has served on a panel of distinguished judges selected from the magazine industry for the prestigious Eddie Awards, conducted by Red 7 Media’s Folio magazine. She has a bachelor of arts degree in English, with a minor in biology, from George Mason University.