Jodi Philbrick

Jodi Philbrick, Ph.D., AHIP, is a principal lecturer in the Department of Information Science, College of Information, at the University of North Texas. Philbrick teaches graduate-level courses in library and information sciences and health informatics at UNT. Prior to her faculty appointment, she was the assistant director of the Houston Program for the Department of Information Science. Dr. Philbrick’s research interests include mobile technology, virtual reference services, and professional competencies in health sciences libraries, and she has conducted research, presented, and published in these areas.

Dr. Philbrick and her collaborators have received multiple Elizabeth K. Eaton Research Awards from the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MLA). Active in MLA, she served as the chair of Section Council and a member of the Board of Directors from 2012–2017. She received the MLA President’s Award in 2017, 2018, and 2020, and in 2021, she was honored with the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award. She is the co-lead instructor of the Medical Library Association’s Research Training Institute, which is an online continuing education program for health sciences librarians that provides advanced research methods training.