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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 5052
Email
alesha.smith@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Postgraduate)
Qualifications
MSc(Otago) PhD(Qld)
Research summary
Clinical pharmacy

Research

My research focuses on quality use of medicines. I am particularly interested in pharmacoepidemiological studies which investigate the use of medicines over time and between populations and jurisdictions. With the introduction of pharmacist prescribing and the potential expansion of nurse prescribing, I am interested in evaluating non-medical prescribing in NZ.

Publications

Kremer, L. J., Smith, A., Tahitahi, K.-A., Mapusua, T., Anwar, M., Rutherford, G., Cho, H., & Guy, W. (2024). Ko au tēnei: This is me. Exploring the lived experience of underrepresented groups with pharmacy services to inform the development of pharmacy case-based learning. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning, 16, 167-173. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2023.12.019 Journal - Research Article

Nind, J., Marra, C. A., Scahill, S., & Smith, A. J. (2023). Describing the consumer profile of different types of community pharmacy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 15(4), 376-381. doi: 10.1071/HC23083 Journal - Research Article

Wilby, K., Booker, C., MacDonald, C., Ramsey, T., Murphy, A., Isenor, J., … Smith, A., … Furlotte, K. (2023). Patients' and community pharmacists' acceptance of prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Pharmacy Education, 23(6), (pp. 416-417). doi: 10.46542/pe.2023.236.350423 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Smith, A. (2023, July). Making quality improvement as easy as CQI! A free step by step guide for practices. Verbal presentation at the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) Conference for General Practice, Tāmaki Makaurau - Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Leitch, S., Smith, A., Zeng, J., & Stokes, T. (2023). Avoiding anti-inflammatories: A randomised control trial testing the use of an information package on primary care patient knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 29(4), (pp. xli). doi: 10.1071/PYv29n4abs Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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