Pharmacy Practice - Pharmacoepidemiology&PublcHlth

Catalog description

Pharmacy profession has a unique and critical opportunity and responsibility to contribute to the improvement of population health. Public health is a broader discipline that encompasses population health with a variety of other areas, including but not limited to epidemiology, cultural competence, health promotion, disease prevention, and drug safety. Pharmacoepidemiology is the application of the principles of epidemiology to the study of medications and their effects. Considerations are centered on providing beneficial or adverse effects of medication use in large populations and making relevant inferences from essential analytical research designs used in public health. Using population-based-care approach, students will adopt and fulfill public health roles and activities. This course provides a broad introduction to the principles of pharmacoepidemiology and public health with a focus on applications in the field of pharmacy. Prerequisite: Students must be admitted to the school of Pharmacy to enroll in this course. Students must have P3 standing in the School of Pharmacy.