The HOME Pharmacy: A Global Health Initiative explores how a community pharmacy can bridge medication access, ambulatory care, public and global health, education, research, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Obtaining a prescription is only one part of achieving good health. This initiative brings federal public health, ambulatory care, HIV prevention, safety-net care, international health, and pharmacy education together in one community-based model.
Ambulatory care pharmacy is the clinical backbone, moving each patient from assessment to intervention or referral, follow-up, and documented outcomes.
Help paying for the medicine you need.
We look for affordable options, explain savings and assistance programs, and help eligible patients through our charitable medication program.
Stop problems before they start.
Health education, prevention, and early checks, offered where pharmacists are permitted to provide them, with referrals when you need more.
Stay on top of long-term conditions.
Your pharmacist reviews your medicines with you, supports chronic-disease care, and follows up so your treatment keeps working.
You never have to navigate alone.
We link patients to clinics, community services, and care partners, and build relationships that make those links stronger.
The pharmacy is the primary implementation site for Dr. Muroka's INMED Master of International Health capstone: a four-month, measurable quality-improvement project.
A living classroom where students see the social, economic, and policy barriers to health, take part in supervised solutions, and measure whether they work.
Structured service-learning in medication access, counseling, adherence, chronic disease, prevention, health literacy, quality improvement, and health-system financing.
A developing Public Health in Pharmacy curriculum covering public and global health, equity, medication access, safety-net and humanitarian pharmacy.
Learning that becomes meaningful service for uninsured, underinsured, and medically underserved people, taught directly by community needs.
Academic and practice relationships across institutions and countries: joint teaching, comparative projects, research, and eventually reciprocal exchange.
Classroom, community, application, evaluation, learning.
The aim is reciprocal learning, not exporting a U.S. model: comparing health systems, disease burdens, access mechanisms, and professional scope to see what each setting can learn from the other.
Community and ambulatory-care practice site, primary local quality-improvement site, and service-learning platform.
U.S. academic partner for pharmacy education, experiential learning, curriculum development, research, and QI.
East African academic partner for comparative public and global health learning and future exchange.
Potential collaborator for ambulatory care, healthcare delivery, QI, and population-health learning.
Student and faculty exchange is a long-term goal, developed gradually through joint virtual teaching, collaborative projects, and research, subject to institutional agreements, supervision, and patient-safety standards.
Charitable pharmacies, academic partnerships, and global exchanges already exist. What may be distinctive here is connecting them around the pharmacist's role in public and global health.
A book in development by Dr. Muroka, intended as a curriculum resource on the pharmacist's expanding role in public health, population health, ambulatory care, equity, medication access, and global health.
Home Pharmacy is not a 340B covered entity. As part of its medication-access strategy, it will explore future partnerships with eligible 340B covered entities and other safety-net organizations where such arrangements are legally permissible, operationally appropriate, and aligned with the mission of improving access for underserved people.
Proposed partnerships, 340B arrangements, exchange activities, and educational collaborations remain exploratory and subject to formal institutional review, agreements, regulatory requirements, funding, supervision, and approval. No institutional endorsement is implied.