Marie Barnard, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration and Research Associate Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the Distinguished Cotton Lecturer in Pharmacy Administration. She earned a master’s degree in epidemiology from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and a PhD in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Mississippi. She serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Pharmacy Administration. Her research interests and expertise include social/behavioral determinants of health, public health, vaccination behavior, program evaluation, health outcomes, and the health sciences educational pipeline. Dr. Barnard has served as a principal or co-investigator on over 50 grants and contracts. She is the PI on an NIH project tha utilizes a youth participatory action approach to develop a young adult-centered health promotion research agenda and seeks to enhance interest in health sciences careers. Her research team studies ways to leverage healthcare systems to improve health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing implementation science-informed evaluations of interventions. They focus on HPV vaccination, intimate partner violence, safe prescribing behaviors, and efforts to leverage the community pharmacy setting to improve health outcomes.

Associated SEPA Project(s)

• Project SCORE (Student-Centered Outcomes Research Experience)
  5R25GM142065-03 : 03/01/2023 - 02/28/2026