What’s new with Pop?
Study: Election stress might impact health
A study led by Dr. Steven Smith suggests population-level blood pressure, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities, might have increased…
Dr. Almut Winterstein elected to the Academy of…
Fourteen members of the class of 2022 were officially inducted at the ASEMFL Annual Meeting in Orlando on Nov. 5.
UF Health researchers find quinolone ear drops…
Research by Patrick Antonelli, M.D., and Almut Winterstein, Ph.D., shows quinolone ear drops used to treat infection increase the risk of tendon…
POP’s new home
Opening Spring 2023
Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology
In the spring of 2023, the department of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy will move into the new Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology. The new state-of-the-art building will unite UF data scientists from pharmacy, medicine, engineering and bioinformatics to create multidisciplinary solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
Areas of Research
POP Research
Pharmacoepidemiology and Safety Sciences
Applies epidemiologic reasoning, methods, and knowledge to studies that examine the safety, effectiveness, and quality of drugs in human populations as well as healthcare systems that impact medication use.
POP Research
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Includes studies which describe the cost, utilization and economic efficiency of pharmaceutical products and related services in the delivery of health care and the development and application of health care policy.
POP Research
Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
The concentration established the competence to evaluate the quality of medication use and medication use systems, to develop target interventions for identified quality deficits, and to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of such interventions.
POP Research
AI in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Research
Our goals in this focus area include employing and tailoring novel AI methodology on automated healthcare data to answer important questions about clinical outcomes of drug effects, other healthcare interventions, and the policies governing medication use.
CODES
Center for Drug Evaluation and Safety
The UF Center for Drug Evaluation and Safety unites researchers interested in using big data to evaluate drugs and the safety of medications through drug safety initiatives in real-world populations.
Department Events
POP Seminar: Phuong T. Tran,B.S.Pharm., M.P.H…
Please join us Thursday, 11/17/2022 for POP Research Seminar of the Fall 2022, held from 11:00 am-12:30 pm in Medical Sciences Building 6120. We will…
POP Seminar: Wenxi Huang, B.S., M.S. and Piaopiao…
Please join us Thursday, 11/03/2022 for POP Research Seminar of the Fall 2022, held from 11:00 am-12:30 pm in Medical Sciences Building 6120. We will…
POP Seminar: Celeste Ewig, M.S., Pharm.D. and…
Please join us Thursday, 10/27/2022 for POP Research Seminar of the Fall 2022, held from 11:00 am-12:30 pm in Medical Sciences Building 6120. We will…
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The Next Generation of Leaders
Graduate Studies in POP
Graduate students describe how their research in the department of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy is helping to make medications safer and more effective.
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