Health & Pharmaceutical Outcomes Track
Course Objective
To provide students with the essential skills and abilities to assume managerial and leadership positions related to the economic analysis, outcomes of pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical services and health care in health care organizations, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions.
Academic Environment
The Coit College of Pharmacy's Center for Health Outcomes & PharmacoEconomic Research (HOPE) was created to assist medical care researchers, providers, payers, regulators and manufacturers in documenting the relative value of pharmaceutical products and services.
The center conducts research and trains graduate students in the following areas:
- Cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis
- Comparative effectiveness research
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement research
- Health disparities analysis
- Drug-drug interaction analysis
- Health technology assessment
- Meta-analysis
- Quality-of-life assessment
- Disease management
- Drug use evaluation
Application Requirements
Students applying to this program should have a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biology, biochemistry or pharmacy with adequate preparation in mathematics. Apply through the University of Arizona Graduate College.
Contact
Ivo Abraham, PhD, RN
Professor of Practice, Pharmacy Practice and Science
David Rhys Axon, PhD, MPharm, MS, MRPharmS
Assistant Research Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science
Co-Director, Pharmacy Outcomes Research Group
Investigator, Center for Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomics