Jo Barnes

I am Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines in the School of Pharmacy. Previously, I’ve held academic positions in the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK, and Department of Complementary Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Exeter, UK. I have a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of London, UK (now UCL School of Pharmacy), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

My main research interest is in pharmacovigilance for herbal and traditional medicines and other natural health products (NHPs). My work includes developing new approaches to identifying and assessing safety issues with these products, as well as exploring pharmacists’ professional practices and consumers’ behaviour concerning herbal medicines/NHPs, including their roles in pharmacovigilance. I also have interests in smoking cessation and women’s health, and undertake systematic reviews of herbal medicine interventions in these and other therapeutic areas.

I am a member of the Centre for Addiction Research (University of Auckland), and collaborate with academics and pharmacovigilance professionals in New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, the Netherlands and Sweden.

I am an honorary consultant and herbal-medicine signal reviewer for the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Sweden, which co-ordinates the World Health Organisation’s Programme for International Drug Monitoring. I am an active member of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP): I lead the ISoP Herbal and Traditional Medicines Special Interest Group (since 2017), co-ordinate the ISoP Western Pacific chapter (since 2020), and was a member of the ISoP Executive Committee (2006-09). I am a member of the Advisory Board of the American Botanical Council, an Associate Editor of Phytochemistry Letters, and long-standing member of the editorial boards of Drug Safety, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, and Phytotherapy Research. I am a registered pharmacist in New Zealand, and was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 2003.

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