The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
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Affiliation
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
Country
United Kingdom
1. Current Status, Position
Mr. Barry Melia is a Principal Pharmacist at Public Health Scotland, Scotland’s national public health body. He provides leadership in medicines intelligence, utilisation, vaccination and pharmaceutical research. He supervises a number of public health-related postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the John Last medal.
Barry is the inaugural Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in the United Kingdom and Co-Chair of the EAHP Working Group on Environmental Sustainability.
2. Education
He studied Pharmacy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and qualified as a pharmacist in 1999. In 2021, he obtained a Master of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh with research exploring the use of national data sets to predict environmental pollutant concentrations of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. He has recently successfully achieved his Diplomate of the Faculty of Public Health examinations.
3. Research Area
His research interests include ecotoxicology of pharmaceuticals in the environment and focus on wastewater epidemiology, the use of “Big Data” to explore real world effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, whole system modelling and life course analysis.
4. Conflict of interest
None