What’s new with Pop?
Popular diabetes medications may protect against…
Dr. Serena Jingchuan Guo is the senior author of a study published in JAMA Neurology April 7.
Dr. Steven Smith named to National Academies of…
Dr. Steven Smith will serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study Committee on Clinical Preventive…
UF researchers demonstrate GLP-1RAs’ potential…
A study led by Dr. Serena Jingchuan Guo may carry significant implications for older patients with diabetes.
POP’s new home
Opened Fall 2023
Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology
In the fall of 2023, the department of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy moved 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
Students demonstrate innovation and collaboration…
The Feb. 17 event saw 112 poster presentations and 12 oral presentations from UF pharmacy students and trainees.
POP Seminar Guest Speaker, Chloe Jian, MPH and…
Please join us Thursday, 2/6/2025 for POP Research Seminar of the Spring 2025, held from 11:30 am-1:00 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium (1st Floor). We will…
POP Seminar Guest Speaker, Kimia Zandbiglari…
Please join us Thursday, 1/30/2025 for POP Research Seminar of the Spring 2025, held from 11:30 am-1:00 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium (1st Floor). 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.