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Welcome to the Pharmacoepidemiology Program pages, part of the Department of Epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, the leading public school of public health in the U.S.!
Mission
The mission of the UNC Pharmacoepidemiology Program is to advance public health through educating diverse audiences, developing innovative methods, and disseminating robust evidence on the uses and effects of medical interventions.
UNC is advancing pharmacoepidemiology (PE) through innovation in methods, application of those methods to critical issues in the field, and training future leaders. PE is the third largest program area within Epidemiology at UNC. These pages list up-to-date information on activities in the program:
- Program: The epidemiology graduate programs (Masters and Doctoral) in the Department of Epidemiology provide rigorous training in epidemiology methods with program specific courses in pharmacoepidemiology for the design and analysis observational studies of medical interventions and the use of administrative healthcare utilization data for real world evidence.
- Faculty: Our current core of seven faculty work on a variety of topics of methodological and substantive interest with collaborations across the UNC system, nationally and internationally.
- Students: Our students, from a range of backgrounds and with varied research interests, come to explore the many opportunities that training in pharmacoepidemiology provides.
- Research: Research tools and resources including recent publications and the data sources we work with.
- CPE: The Center for Pharmacoepidemiology is a unique partnership between the Department of Epidemiology and industry stakeholders, helping to train researcher both within and outside of academia.
- Alumni: PE program graduates go on to a variety of roles including industry, contract research organizations, governmental agencies and academia.
- Resource: Introductory lectures on key concepts in pharmacoepidemiology
- Methods Symposium: Members of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology can access recordings from the UNC Annual Pharmacoepidemiology Symposium.
- UNC at ICPE: The PE program is an active participant in the Annual International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE).
- HGML: The Harry Guess Memorial Lecture, in honor Dr Guess who built the UNC PE program and widely regarded as an outstanding teacher and mentor.
Recent News
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April 2, 2025
The 18th Annual Harry Guess Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr Sean Hennessy (Professor of Epidemiology and Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania). His talk is titled: “Medications, Weather and Human Health”. We look forward to you joining us. Read more here |
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Feb 2025 Congratulations to Oluwasolape Olawore who was awarded a PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in ‘Value Assessment and Health Outcomes”. Sola’s dissertation work focuses on medication use in pregnancy and the peripartum period.
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August 24-28, 2024
UNC had a great presence at the annual International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology Research. The 40th Annual meeting was held in Berlin and the pharmacoepidemiology group was involved in: 2 skills courses, 5 symposia and workshops (1 entirely student-led), 9 oral presentations and 26 posters of which 8 were spotlight posters Read more here |
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