UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Michele Jonsson Funk, PhD, FISPE, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the pharmacoepidemiology program at UNC, and Director of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology. Over the past 16 years on faculty at UNC, her research has focused on the intersection of pharmacoepidemiology and methods for estimating valid effects in real world data with specific applications in women’s health research. Her ongoing research studies use data from US Medicare claims, IBM Watson Health Analytics’ Marketscan data, and the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) – an electronic medical record warehouse that brings together rich clinical and administrative data on over 2 million patients seen across the spectrum of care by providers in the UNC Health Care System. More recently, she has led efforts at UNC to link complementary data (e.g. Medicare claims with the UNC CDW-H). Her methodologic expertise includes rigorous estimation of drug effects using non-experimental data, evaluation of treatment effect heterogeneity, implementation of propensity scores, doubly robust estimators, causal inference methods, and data linkage approaches. Her applied research spans a number of substantive areas including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and women’s health including effects of prenatal drug exposures on pregnancy outcomes.