Biographic sketch

Brian Yates is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at American University in Washington, DC, where he began working as an Assistant Professor in 1976. Dr. Yates has published 72 articles, book chapters, and reviews, 5 books, and has 1 more publication in press. Most of his work apply cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) or cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to the systematic evaluation and improvement of human services.

Dr. Yates has conducted Cost-Procedure-Process-Outcome Analysis (CPPOA) for human service enterprises and research initiatives in prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other substance abuse and suicide, and in treatment of opiate, cocaine, and alcohol addictions, residential programs for urban youth and for mentally retarded adults, and consumer-operated services. He wrote a manual for helping substance abuse treatment programs measure, report, and improve their cost, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit, was published in 1999 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Dr. Yates also consults regularly on a variety of federally funded projects in health, alcohol and drug addiction, media-based substance abuse prevention, mental health services for children and families, and multi-site studies of the costs, benefits, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit of adding consumer-operated services to traditional mental health services, and of new accreditation procedures for opioid treatment programs.