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To stem the tide of substance and alcohol use disorders, the USC School of Pharmacy is a key partner in the newly established USC Institute for Addiction Science (IAS), the nation’s first university-wide, comprehensive, transdisciplinary addiction institute. IAS brings together 77 faculty from nine colleges and schools, including medicine, social work, psychology, communication, public policy and engineering, in addition to pharmacy.

Community pharmacy residents Jeremy Dow, PharmD, Helena Mahsaradijan, PharmD and Edwin Shamtob, PharmD each received 2020-21 APhA Foundation Incentive grants for their projects.

A new USC Schaeffer Center study published in Health Affairs and led by John Romley and colleagues finds that almost 20% of counties in the nation have high levels of both hesitancy and social vulnerability, and continue to be most at risk of failing to achieve high COVID-19 vaccination coverage.

A team from the USC Schaeffer Center undertook a full assessment of the first year of the pandemic’s mortality burden by measuring years of life lost and accounting for quality-of-life differences, factoring in age, sex, race/ethnicity and comorbidities.

The USC American Pharmacy Student Alliance (APSA) hosted USC School of Pharmacy’s annual Legislative Day on Friday, October 22.

Meet second-year PharmD student Nathalie Iribe, vice president of admission and recruitment for the Associated Students of the School of Pharmacy. Iribe shares her experience growing up in a community where many did not have health insurance and how she became inspired to pursue a career in pharmacy to advocate for accessible healthcare.