Barbara A. Given

Barbara A. Given is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Associate Dean Emeritus at Michigan State University College of Nursing, renowned for her extensive NIH-funded research spanning over 34 years on caregiver burden in chronic disease and cancer care. She developed the widely used Caregiver Burden Instrument, translated into multiple languages including Dutch, German, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Spanish, and Hebrew. Her work has been supported by major funders like the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, and American Cancer Society.