Research
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The Department of Pharmacy Administration
has developed a reputation for high quality related to pharmaceuticals, pharmacy, and health care. The Department faculty routinely employ national mail surveys, focus groups, interviews, and secondary data sets in their research. Students in the program gain expertise in the use of these research methods.
Defining Excellence in Administration
Persistent Pursuits
Our students have completed 120 dissertations since the founding of the department. These students have redifined and left their mark on the field.
Strong Minds
Our students have completed 133 theses since the founding of the department. These students have excelled in the workforce today.
Faculty's Research Expertise
Dr. John Bentley
John has conducted research in a variety of areas, including quality of life assessment and patient-reported outcomes in health care; medication use, misuse, and outcomes; pharmacoepidemiology; healthcare quality assessment; measurement of adherence to medications; pharmaceutical marketing and patient behavior; patients’ evaluation of health-care providers; direct-to-consumer advertising; pharmacy practice management; health behaviors among college students; and ethics and professionalism. He has been a member of many interdisciplinary teams and consulted with numerous researchers concerning statistical analysis.
Dr. Erin Holmes
Erin Holmes has expertise in pharmacy management, pharmacy law, health policy, social and behavioral pharmacy, and legal issues in medicine. Other research interests include the financial sustainability of independent community pharmacies, workforce issues in community pharmacies, and patient behavior.
Dr. John Bentley
John has conducted research in a variety of areas, including quality of life assessment and patient-reported outcomes in health care; medication use, misuse, and outcomes; pharmacoepidemiology; healthcare quality assessment; measurement of adherence to medications; pharmaceutical marketing and patient behavior; patients’ evaluation of health-care providers; direct-to-consumer advertising; pharmacy practice management; health behaviors among college students; and ethics and professionalism. He has been a member of many interdisciplinary teams and consulted with numerous researchers concerning statistical analysis.
Dr. Kaustuv Bhattacharya
Dr. Bhattacharya's expertise lies in health economics and outcomes research. Specifically, his research focuses on assessing the economic, clinical, and humanistic burden of various chronic diseases, their treatments, and unmet needs among patients with these health conditions, informing healthcare decision-making.
Dr. Yinan Huang
Dr. Huang specializes in pharmacoepidemiology and outcomes research. To date, her research area focuses on deriving high-quality real-world evidence about the utilization, effectiveness, and safety of medications, particularly for the patient groups who are underrepresented in randomized clinical trials, such as the elderly or those with multiple comorbidities.
Dr. Yi Yang
Dr. Yang’s expertise is centered on health economics and outcomes research. Specifically, Dr. Yang’s research interests include comparative safety and effectiveness research, pharmacoepidemiology, and healthcare resource utilization and cost analysis.
Dr. Marie Barnard
Marie Barnard, PhD, has over 25 years of experience engaging with communities to identify, create, and expand programs that maximize health and well-being. She currently has an NIH grant to work with teens to develop a teen-centered health research agenda.
Dr. Meagen Rosenthal
Meagen Rosenthal, PhD, is an accomplished researcher and leader in community wellbeing and engagement, with more than ten years of experience collaborating with communities and researchers as they work towards common goals.
Dr. Marie Barnard
Marie Barnard, PhD, studies ways to leverage healthcare systems, including community pharmacies, to improve health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing implementation-science-informed evaluation of interventions. Her research examines ways to increase HPV vaccination and to expand screening and referral for intimate partner violence in health settings.
Dr. John Bentley
John has conducted research in a variety of areas, including quality of life assessment and patient-reported outcomes in health care; medication use, misuse, and outcomes; pharmacoepidemiology; healthcare quality assessment; measurement of adherence to medications; pharmaceutical marketing and patient behavior; patients’ evaluation of health-care providers; direct-to-consumer advertising; pharmacy practice management; health behaviors among college students; and ethics and professionalism. He has been a member of many interdisciplinary teams and consulted with numerous researchers concerning statistical analysis.
Dr. Meagen Rosenthal
Meagen Rosenthal, PhD, is an accomplished researcher and leader in implementation science, with more than 15 years of experience working to get research evidence into practice faster and more sustainably.
Dr. Marie Barnard
Marie Barnard, PhD studies ways to leverage healthcare systems to improve health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing implementation-science informed evlauation of interventions. Her research examines ways to increase HPV vaccination and to expand screening and referral for intimate partner violence in health settings.
Dr. Marie Barnard
Marie Barnard, PhD has a portfolio of projects that aim to enhance the health sciences and biomedical research education pipeline. These projects include work with teens through junior faculty and are funded by NIH and NSF.
Why do research in administration?
Someone should pursue graduate education in Pharmacy Administration to effect meaningful, positive change in healthcare at a systems level. Graduate training empowers us to rigorously address health inequity, access to healthcare, and value in healthcare. Better healthcare evidence can inform better healthcare decisions and help our healthcare system work better for everyone.
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Our Partnerships
The Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
The faculty and graduate students of the department work closely with the CPMM on various research projects critical to understanding health care issues.
Undergraduate Research Experience
The program aims to provide educational science research opportunities at the University of Mississippi to undergraduate students seeking research experiences and considering a career in research or academia.
Project SCORE
Project SCORE seeks to increase awareness of and interest in public health, science engagement, and STEM careers, as well as increase matriculation into higher education STEM programs to enhance and diversify the future biomedical workforce.