Adati Tarfa, PharmD, MS, PhD

Adati Tarfa is a postdoctoral associate in the InSTRIDE lab. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Drake University (2017) and an MS and PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2023).

Adati's master's thesis explored patients', pharmacists', and social workers' perspectives on barriers to linkage and retention in HIV care within community pharmacies. For her dissertation, she utilized the Addiction-Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (A-CHESS) mobile app intervention to investigate factors influencing HIV medication adherence among individuals with substance use disorders. Additionally, she used qualitative discourse analysis and illness perception theories to explore patients' perspectives and the barriers they encounter when seeking care for their co-occurring health conditions.

Using pharmacist-focused approaches, Adati's research interests center around the application of mixed methods and social behavioral theories to inform the development and dissemination of interventions targeting comorbid substance use disorders and HIV.