Alan Kinlaw, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy.
Kinlaw joins the School after a post-doctoral fellowship at UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, where he worked under Timothy Carey, M.D., M.P.H. He earned his Ph.D. in 2016 and his M.S.P.H. in 2012, both from the Department of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Kinlaw is also a graduate of N.C. State University, where he earned undergraduate degrees in textile engineering and French.
Kinlaw’s research interests include patterns of prescription drug use, the comparative effectiveness and safety of medications and medical devices, and approaches for reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescribing, in both the pediatric and adult populations. Kinlaw has also worked as an epidemiologist in the Department of Pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine.