Edith Helen Barrett CBE (29 October 1872 – 1 February 1939) was an Australian medical doctor and a founder of the Bush Nursing Association of Victoria.

She was among the founders of the Victorian section of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1902, and served as its honorary secretary 1911-1915 and 1921–1926.

She was involved in the founding of the Bush Nursing Association of Victoria, and sat on its council representing the Victorian Medical Women's Society.

She took over the honorary secretaryships of the Bush Nursing Association of Victoria and the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society from her brother James when he joined the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, and continued to serve both organisations until the late 1930s.

[6] Her obituary in The Daily Advertiser described her as "one of the outstanding medical women of Victoria until illness compelled her to retire from active practice some years ago.