• DPOP has nine faculty members and sixteen adjunct faculty members
• DPOP has thirteen graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow
• DPOP is one of the few programs in the country, housed in a school of pharmacy, with faculty who have an active research program in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy

We have access to a large number of databases including:

• MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters (CCAE) data
• MarketScan Multistate Medicaid data
• MarketScan Medicare Supplemental and Coordination of Benefits (MSCOB) data
• Medicaid Carolina Medicaid data
• Humana Part D prescription claims data
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
• Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Medicare Chronic Condition Data Warehouse

Our collaborative efforts reach from UNC centers and schools to national entities including:

UNC Campus

• Carolina Center for Genomic Sciences
• Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
• Center for Genomics and Society
• Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Consortium
• Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes (ECHO) Organization
• Gillings School of Global Public Health
• Injury Prevention Research Center
• Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Care
• Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute
• School of Medicine

State of North Carolina

• AccessCare
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
• Community Care of NC
• Duke University Medical Center
• Mission Hospital, Asheville
• North Carolina Falls Prevention Coalition
• North Carolina General Assembly
• North Carolina Tumor Registry

National

• AACR-FDA-NCI Collaborative Biomarkers Initiative
• Agency for Healthcare, Research and Quality
• American College of Rheumatology
• American Heart Association
• Cooperative Oncology clinical trials group: Alliance Organization
• Directors of Public Health Educators
• Food and Drug Administration
• Humana, Inc.
• National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Institutes of Health
• Novartis Pharmaceuticals
• Prudential Center for Health Research-Aetna Center for Health Care Research
• Research Triangle Institute
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network