Tina Penick Brock, BA, BSPharm, MS, EdD

Professor Tina Brock is a pharmacist and the Director of the Collaborative Practice Centre in the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. She is an educational activist with a fervent commitment to harnessing the transformative power of collaboration to advance health globally.

Tina started her pharmacy career at Medical Center Pharmacy in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. From that auspicious launching point, she moved into academic leadership roles at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University College London, University of California San Francisco, Monash University, and the University of Colorado. She has also worked across all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions via the nongovernmental organisation, Management Sciences for Health. Tina currently serves on the WHO Academy Advisory Group of Lifelong Learning in Health. She is a fellow of American Pharmacists Association, the International Pharmaceutical Federation, and the National Academies of Practice.

Tina considers mentoring to be her true north. She’s benefitted greatly from it and is committed to ensuring that others have that support, too. No matter where she is, Tina’s most treasured asset is her network of mentees around the world. It’s through them that she stays passionate for the hard work of systems change. She is also grateful to still be learning from them about emerging areas such as climate change and health, the potential uses of AI in health, equity and justice, allyship, global partnerships, and more.