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Senior’s Name: Delesha Carpenter
Availability: 3/3

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Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discipline: Pharmacy/Pharmacology
Years of experience: 15

Research

Areas of work:

Research methods:

  • Co-design
  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies
  • RCT

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. opioid overdose communication
  2. suicide prevention

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Dr. Carpenter researches communication about sensitive topics like suicide, vaccine hesitancy, and opioid overdose prevention. She is currently leading two R01s as PI that involve randomized controlled trials and primary collection of data via surveys and secret shopper studies.

Biography/CV:

Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her educational background includes clinical training in respiratory therapy and public health. She has more than 15 years of experience conducting patient-provider communication research. More recently, she has studied how pharmacists communicate about sensitive topics, such as opioid overdose and suicide and is particularly interested in how community pharmacists can increase access to health services in underserved rural areas. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and has led more than a dozen research studies as a principal investigator.

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