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FIPEd, the new umbrella directorate encompassing FIP Education
Initiatives, is bringing together all of FIP s education actions; strengthening our projects and our partnerships with the World
Health Organization (WHO) and with UnESCO.
FIPEd is comprised by the academic Institutional Membership
(aIM), led by Dr Wayne Hindmarsh (Canada); the pharmacy education taskforce, led by Prof Ian Bates (UK) and the
FIp academic Section, Presided by Dr Ralph Altiere (USA).
FIPEd is working to stimulate transformational change in
pharmaceutical education and engender the development
of science and practice, towards meeting present and future
societal and workforce needs around the world. We are
advocating for the use of needsbased strategies where
pharmacy education is socially accountable, where practice
and science are evidencebased and practitioners have the
required competencies to provide the needed services to their
c ommunities.