Working Globally, Acting Locally: A Community-Based Approach to Staying Healthy
Thomas Buckley, PharmD, MPH, FNAP
Thomas Buckley is Professor Emeritus at the UConn School of Pharmacy. He holds joint appointments at the UConn School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences, and the UConn Human Rights Institute. He received his pharmacy and public health degrees from the University of Connecticut, and he completed a pharmacy practice residency at the University of Washington, and a global health fellowship with Johns Hopkins University and the International Rescue Committee. As a public health pharmacist researcher, his work focuses on health disparities and health policy implications, focusing on immigrant and refugee health care in Connecticut and Southeast Asia.
He is a Clinical Consultant and researcher for Khmer Health Advocates, a Cambodian American mental health clinic for genocide survivors in West Hartford, CT. He also provides public health and clinical consultation for the Cambodian Diabetes Association in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and the Mao Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand. He has authored numerous national and global health publications and been principle investigator or co-investigator on multiple federal grant projects serving racial and ethnically underserved populations.