Scientific Tracks Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy

Healthcare delivery faces the multiple challenges of limited resources, increasing expenditures, increasing expectations, greater complexity, costly new technology, and limited healthcare access. As pharmaceutical policy issues become larger and more complex, the need for professionally trained translational pharmaceutical research scientists to analyze medication outcomes and policy planning has never been greater.

The POP program's training will focus on the relationship between pharmacotherapy and health outcomes, pharmacoepidemiology, informatics, and pharmaceutical policy. The program will prepare students for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, managed care companies, governmental positions related to healthcare benefits, and academic positions focused on research related to pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. The program core is composed of courses in epidemiology, policy, and statistics relevant to the field of POP.

Institute of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy 

Our faculty have expertise in methods related to:

• Community Engaged Research
• Dissemination and Implementation
• Health Policy
• Health Services Research
• Human Factors and Systems Engineering
• Informatics
• Intervention Design and Development
• Mixed Methods
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods

Our faculty conduct research in areas related to:

• Adolescent and Family Health
• Aging
• Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Critical Care
• Health Disparities
• Health Literacy
• Infectious Diseases
• Medication Adherence
• Medication Safety
• Pain Management
• Stroke
• Substance Use Disorders
• Teaching and Learning

Prospective Students

Prospective graduate students come from a pool of applicants with backgrounds in pharmacy and other fields such as anthropology, biology, business administration, dentistry, economics, epidemiology, gerontology, health administration, medicine, nursing, public health, political science, psychology, public administration, public policy, social work, sociology, and others. Most entry-level students have a degree in pharmacy or other health-related clinical degree and a master's level graduate degree in population health with a background or interest in pharmaceutical research.

Funding

Research and teaching assistantships and fellowships are available and are awarded on a competitive basis. Assistantship funding includes a competitive stipend and benefits package consisting of tuition and graduate student health insurance.

Please refer to the websites linked below for relevant information for the current Academic Year.

• Cost of Attendance: The total estimated expenses to attend UK, including tuition, fees, housing, meals, books, supplies, transportation, and personal expenses.
• Tuition and Fees: These are the specific charges for instruction and related services, excluding other living and personal expenses. Tuition and fees (both resident and non-resident) are fully paid for all graduate students who have appointments as teaching or research assistants or fellowships.
• Stipends: These may come from Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, or Fellowships. There are no separate application forms for these appointments. Your stipend can increase if you are awarded a competitive extramural fellowship. Many of our students receive these nationally competitive awards.

Faculty

• Olufunmilola Abraham, Ph.D., M.S., B.Pharm.
• Chris Delcher, Ph.D.
• Matthew Duprey, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
• Daniel Harris, Ph.D.
• Jayani Jayawardhana, Ph.D.
• Ashlan Kunz Coyne, Pharm.D., M.PH.
• Daniela Moga, M.D., Ph.D.
• Doug Oyler, Pharm.D.
• Trish Rippetoe Freeman, Ph.D.