Omolola (Lola) Adeoye-Olatunde, PharmD, MS, has been named the new director of Community Health Partnerships, the community engagement arm of the Indiana CTSI. Adeoye-Olatunde is the Darr-Chaney Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University. She is also founder and director of HER Lab, a community-engaged research “collaboratory” for the Purdue University […]
Indiana Community Health Workers: Challenges and Opportunities for Workforce Development
An interest in, and the need for, Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the United States is growing exponentially. CHWs possess a unique ability to relate to and build trust with communities in order to improve clinical outcomes, while building individual and community capacity. Given their critical role in addressing social determinants of health, expanding the […]
Advancing pharmacy technician roles in practice
In this article, HER Lab Director, Lola Adeoye-Olatunde, discusses advancing the pharmacy technician’s role in addressing social determinants of health and provides some practical resources. Full article: https://www.japha.org/article/S1544-3191(22)00401-0/abstract
A Call to Action from the Purdue University Center for Health Equity and Innovation
The Purdue University College of Pharmacy established the Center for Health Equity and Innovation (CHEqI) to provide students, faculty, and internal and external partners with a coordinating center whose primary purpose is to address inequities in the social determinants of health. In this article, several HER Lab members discuss the development of the center, interdisciplinary […]