Betsy Sleath is the George H. Cocolas Distinguished professor and chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and codirector of the community engagement core of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. In addition, she is a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research where she works with the mental health and aging research groups. Sleath is principal investigator on a grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute which involves examining how communication between pediatricians and children with asthma and their caregivers is related to asthma control and child outcomes and a grant from the National Eye Institute on provider-glacoma patient communication and patient outcomes.

Research Interests

Provider-patient communication about medications, patient adherence, and outcomes research