Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation & Policy (PEP) at the UAMS College of Pharmacy. She conducts policy-relevant research at the intersection of health economics, pharmacoepidemiology, and causal inference, with an emphasis on how economic and pharmacy policies influence access to HIV prevention services (including PrEP) and other population health outcomes. Her work leverages large-scale data sources to generate decision-ready evidence for practice and policy. Her research is supported by NIH funding, including an NIH R01 focused on pharmacy-based PrEP and an NIH K01 examining how economic policies affect PrEP use.
Department
Pharmacy Practice
Division
Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy
Education and Training
- Ph.D. in Economics — Lehigh University
- M.Sc. in Socio-Economic Systems Engineering — Sharif University of Technology
- B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering — Sharif University of Technolog
Research and Scholarly Interests
- HIV prevention policy and implementation, including pharmacy-based prescribing authority and policy impacts
- Effects of state and federal policies on vaccination and health behaviors
- Spatial and computational epidemiology: access to services, GIS tools, and prediction modeling
- Using social media and digital trace data to study information diffusion and predict health outcomes