Professor Colin Hill

Barry is a Principal Pharmacist at Public Health Scotland, Scotland's national public health body. His professional background includes community pharmacy, primary care, public health, and academia. He provides leadership in medicines intelligence, utilisation, vaccination and pharmaceutical research. He supervises a number of public health-related postgraduate students at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the John Last medal. His research interests include ecotoxicology of pharmaceuticals in the environment with a focus on wastewater epidemiology, the use of "Big Data" to explore real world effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, whole system modelling and life course analysis.

Barry was the inaugural Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in the United Kingdom and is currently the co-Chair of the EAHP Working Group on Environmental Sustainability. He is also the co-Chair of the NHS Scotland Pharmaceutical Public Health Network Specialist Interest Group.

Barry studied Pharmacy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and qualified as a pharmacist in 1999. In 2021, he obtained a Master of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh with research exploring the use of national data sets to predict environmental pollutant concentrations of pharmaceuticals in wastewater.