Jody Jaggers, PharmD

Jody Jaggers has served as Director of Pharmacy Public Health Programs at the Kentucky Pharmacy Education and Research Foundation since October 2018 and the Director of Pharmacy Emergency Preparedness from April 2017 to October 2018. He is responsible for the operations of Kentucky’s Mobile Harm Reduction Pharmacy via the Opioid Data to Action (OD2A) grant as well as distribution of naloxone through the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) grant as well as naloxone distribution to law enforcement agencies across the state as part of funding from the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP). Prior to joining KPhA, Dr. Jaggers worked 13 years as a community pharmacist in both chain and independent pharmacy settings with experience as a staff pharmacist and pharmacy manager. He completed his undergraduate degree at Western Kentucky University in 2000 and his Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky in 2005. Originally from Elizabethtown, Dr. Jaggers currently resides in Versailles, Kentucky, with his wife and two children. He is ordained as a deacon and is an active member at Versailles Baptist Church and is currently the treasurer of the Board of Directors at Woodford Christian School.