Meagen Rosenthal
Director of the Community First Research Center for Wellbeing and Creative Achievement; Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration and Research Associate Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Rosenthal’s general research interests include community pharmacy practice advancement, implementation science, and patient centered research design.
Research Interests
Implementation science to increase the adoption of evidence based practices; Community-based participatory research to enhance applicability of research findings; Community driven research design to answer research questions that are important to community members
Biography
Meagen Rosenthal, PhD, is an accomplished researcher and leader in community wellbeing and engagement, with more than 10 years of experience collaborating with communities and researchers as they work towards common goals. Dr. Rosenthal earned a Master of Arts in Sociology and completed her PhD in Experimental Medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada. She joined the faculty in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi (UM) in 2014 and holds the rank of associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Administration. In 2019 Dr. Rosenthal co-founded UM’s Community Wellbeing Flagship Constellation Initiative and later co-created the Community First Research Center for Wellbeing and Creative Achievement (CREW) with Annie Cafer, PhD. She now serves as director of UM CREW. Dr. Rosenthal’s research interests include community-based participatory research methods, qualitative research methods, community pharmacy practice advancement, and implementation science.
Education
M.A. Sociology, University of Alberta (2008)
Ph.D. Experimental Medicine, University of Alberta (2014)