Rate My Professor Lynne Emmerton

Her research specializations center on pharmacy practice, with a focus on the safe and effective use of medicines in community settings. Key interests include consumers’ online health information-seeking behaviors and implications for pharmacy practice, mobile health apps to facilitate self-care in chronic disease management, needs analysis for medical cannabis among people with chronic non-cancer pain, pharmacist-delivered asthma management services, and evaluation frameworks for health literacy-responsiveness among health professional students. Emmerton led the comprehensive course review of the School of Pharmacy’s postgraduate coursework degrees from 2011 to 2013 and has extensive experience supervising postgraduate research. Her major publications encompass “Mobile Health Apps to Facilitate Self-Care: A Qualitative Study of User Experiences” (Anderson et al., 2016), “Consumer Use of ‘Dr Google’: A Survey on Health Information-Seeking Behaviors and Navigational Needs” (Hoti et al., 2015), “Consumers’ Experiences and Values in Conventional and Alternative Medicine Paradigms: A Problem Detection Study (PDS)” (Emmerton et al., 2012), “App Chronic Disease Checklist: Protocol to Evaluate Functionality and Usability” (Anderson et al., 2016), and “Development of an Evaluation Framework for Health Literacy-Responsiveness of Undergraduate Health Professional Students” (Ogundipe et al., 2023). Through multi-professional collaborations, her work advances pharmacy education and community health practices.