1. Current Status, Position

Mr. Barry Melia is a Principal Pharmacist at Public Health Scotland, Scotland's national public health body. He provides leadership in medicines intelligence, utilisation, vaccination and pharmaceutical research. He supervises a number of public health-related postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the John Last medal. 

Barry is the inaugural Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in the United Kingdom and Co-Chair of the EAHP Working Group on Environmental Sustainability.

2. Education

He studied Pharmacy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and qualified as a pharmacist in 1999. In 2021, he obtained a Master of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh with research exploring the use of national data sets to predict environmental pollutant concentrations of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. He has recently successfully achieved his Diplomate of the Faculty of Public Health examinations. 

3. Research Area

His research interests include ecotoxicology of pharmaceuticals in the environment and focus on wastewater epidemiology, the use of "Big Data" to explore real world effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, whole system modelling and life course analysis.

4. Conflict of interest

None