Aisling Caffrey

Aisling Caffrey serves as Adjunct Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University and Director of Outcomes Research for the Infectious Diseases Research Program at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy. Her work focuses on applying advanced epidemiologic and pharmacoepidemiologic methods to evaluate antibiotic efficacy and safety in real-world clinical settings, addressing critical needs in antimicrobial resistance research.

Her educational background includes a PharmD earned in 2009 from the University of Rhode Island.

Dr. Caffrey's research spans interdisciplinary domains with expertise in:

• Comparative Effectiveness Research for antimicrobial therapies
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology of bacterial pathogens
• Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety monitoring
• Health Services Research using electronic health record databases
• Advanced analytic methods for real-world evidence generation
• Study design for active comparator trials

Her work directly tackles the urgent challenge of extending antimicrobial pipeline effectiveness amid rising multidrug resistance.

As Director of Outcomes Research, she leads interdisciplinary teams within the Infectious Diseases Research Program, leveraging electronic health record databases to investigate drug utilization patterns, therapeutic outcomes, and safety profiles of antimicrobial agents in diverse clinical populations.