Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research
Executive Director, Behavioral Health Resources and Technical Assistance Program
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
In addition to her roles at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Fadia Shaya directs the informatics core at the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and is an affiliate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Shaya teaches various clinical and graduate policy courses and advises and mentors pharmacy, medical, graduate, and postdoctoral students and junior faculty. Her mentees and students have taken positions in government, academia, consulting, nonprofit organizations, and the health care industry.
She serves on the Faculty Advisory Council of the Maryland Higher Education Commission, is on the board of AcademyHealth, and is the regional director of the Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association.
She also is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the American Medical Informatics Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association, the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, and the Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
Shaya’s work focuses on building strategic partnerships, taking into account the social determinants of health, to optimize the effectiveness and reduce the risk of prescription drugs and medical devices. Her implementation/dissemination research is based in human data science and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. With multidisciplinary collaborations, she develops and applies new methods in pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, public health, and clinical informatics to inform practice and policy.
Shaya, who was UMB’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, earned her PhD in health policy, finance and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the American University of Beirut.
