The UConn School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ Department of Pharmacy Practice impacts patient health and well-being worldwide by combining scholarly excellence with public engagement and community-based research and practice partnerships. Students learn from faculty and preceptors that not only teach students but also conduct research and provide patient care on health care teams in hospitals, clinics, accountable care organizations, and community pharmacies throughout the state of Connecticut and beyond. This active connection with patients provides students with invaluable opportunities to apply learning to real world challenges. Beyond the classroom, our faculty are integrally involved in national and state pharmacy organizations, federal and state agencies, and the legislature. These connections help us to identify issues and create and test new paradigms in care through our scholarship.

Check out our Department of Pharmacy Practice Brochure and list of faculty.

As the State of Connecticut’s flagship public university, UConn is committed to community service. The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences' Department of Pharmacy Practice, and our pharmacy students are major contributors. Five of our faculty members and a student-faculty team have been honored through the University’s Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship. We received the Weaver award for public engagement from AACP in 2021 and were selected by the Hartford Business Journal as Health Care Heroes in 2022.

Faculty and students actively support: 1. Multilingual mobile care clinics. These clinics serve the health care
needs of uninsured migrant farm workers, homeless patients, and low-income long-term care patients. 2. Community health centers in urban settings. Interdisciplinary teams of students and faculty from pharmacy, nursing, medical, and dental medicine work together in inner city settings to better understand social determinants of health and how to best engage diverse and economically disadvantaged patients. 3. Confronting opioid epidemic. Faculty and students have trained over 1,000 people to properly use naloxone and fentanyl test strips and educated substance control officers, poison control centers, legislators, and consumers about “gas station heroin” and xylazine adulterated fentanyl products. 4. Community education. Community health events including health and medication screenings as well as educational talks at cultural events, senior centers, soup kitchens, high schools, and community centers. 5. Communication of critical information. We engage the community through consumer-facing television, radio, online, and print media. Our faculty have been interviewed for stories covered on the BBC, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, WNPR, and PBS, and in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Vogue, and many more. 6. We are among the top schools of pharmacy in media reach across the globe with a total media reach of over 6 billion