The Department of Social Pharmacy
Established in 1997 the Department of social pharmacy focuses on the development of academic and experimental grounds for education and research in the broader area of social pharmacy. The area of interest are the influences of drugs as material, biomedical, ethical and proprietary category on the modern individual and society.
Research includes pharmaceopidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. The Department is devoted to the study of properties and development of information technology in acquisition and transfer of knowledge about medicines. It studies the role of pharmaceutical profession in the modern societies, and the methods of communications between pharmacists and other health professionals, and with lay public. Central concepts of interest are also patient counseling and pharmaceutical care.