Betsy Sleath, Ph.D.
Regional Associate Dean-Eastern North Carolina
George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Director of Child and Adolescent Health Program, Cecil G Sheps Center
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Health Policy Management
PHONE(919) 962-0079
betsy_sleath@unc.edu
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2212 Kerr Hall, , CB# 7573, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7573
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Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., is the Regional Associate Dean for Eastern North Carolina and the George H Cocolas Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is a senior research fellow and director of the Child and Adolescent Health Program at the Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is also an adjunct professor of health policy and management and epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is the recipient of the 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American Pharmacists Association.
Sleath was principal investigator on a recent AHRQ $1.6 million dollar grant titled “Improving African American glaucoma patient involvement in visits”. She and her team have funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project titled “Improving the outcomes of adolescents with ADHD via a pre-visit question prompt list/video intervention: a randomized controlled feasibility trial”. Her team also has funding from the Dogwood Health Trust for a project titled “Co-creating and disseminating substance use and vaping educational videos and question prompt lists in partnership with teens in Western North Carolina”. The developed videos and question prompt lists were put on the team’s website “Information for Evolving Teenagers” (iuveo. org).
Sleath teaches ethics, communications, grant writing, and research methods. She coordinates the school’s grant writing graduate course. She teaches in the social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical use graduate courses and in the patient care experience courses.
Research
Most of Sleath’s research focuses on provider-patient communication in the areas of glaucoma, asthma, ADHD, and diabetes; engaging patients more during visits; and improving health outcomes through interventions. Her work in this area has been funded by NHLBI, NIA, NIMH, NEI, AHRQ, PCORI, and the Bayer Institute for Health Communication. She received her PhD. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BS in pharmacy and BA in sociology from the University of Connecticut.
She was recently principal investigator on a 1.6 million dollar AHRQ grant titled “Improving African American Glaucoma Patient Involvement in Visits and Outcomes.” She has funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project titled “Improving the outcomes of adolescents with ADHD via a pre-visit question prompt list/video intervention: a randomized controlled feasibility trial”. She also has funding from the Dogwood Health Trust for a project titled “Co-creating and disseminating substance use and vaping educational videos and question prompt lists in partnership with teens in Western North Carolina”. The developed videos and question prompt lists have been put on her team’s website “Information for the Evolving Teenagers” (iuveo. org).
Sleath serves on the editorial boards of Patient Education and Counseling and the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. Sleath was an inaugural member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee. She is also a past chair of the Social and Administrative Sciences Section of The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
- BMS-UNC Worldwide Health Economics and Outcomes Research Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program
- Improving African American glaucoma patient involvement in visits and outcomes
- Co-creating and disseminating substance use and vaping educational videos and question prompt lists in partnership with teens in Western North Carolina
- Improving the outcomes of adolescents with ADHD via a pre-visit question prompt list/video intervention: a randomized controlled feasibility trial
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Pharmacy and Sociology; Ph.D. minor in Epidemiology – 1993
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in Pharmacy – 1990
- University of Connecticut, B.S. in Pharmacy – 1988
- University of Connecticut, B.A. in Sociology – 1988