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FIP has adopted as one of its three main Strategic Objectives

to advance the pharmaceutical sciences. This ambitious goal is

done through the work of the ten Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

led by the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences which develop

projects and initiatives to aid FIP and its Member Organisations

truly advance the pharmaceutical sciences on a global level.

Over the course of 2011­2012, the key accomplishment of the

BPS was the adoption of the new BPS Strategic Plan. In addition,

another primary area of focus was going into stronger collabo­

ration with the Board of Pharmacy Practice (BPP), an endeavour

already put into action with the combined science­practice FIP

Programme Committee preparing the programme for the 2012

Centennial. The BPS has also released an article entitled Impact

of the Pharmaceutical Sciences on Health Care: A reflection over

the past 50 Years that has been made available on the

FIP website.

Leadership also changed hands this year, with Dr Henk de

Jong (the netherlands) elected and confirmed as FIP Scientific

Secretary at the FIP 2011 Congress in Hyderabad, India, following

in the footsteps of previous Secretary Dr Vinod Shah (USA).

At the BPS meeting held in February 2012 Prof. Geoff Tucker

(UK) was unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the BPS.

At this same meeting the BPS unanimously elected Prof. Ross

McKinnon (Australia) as new vice­president through the BPS.

The outcome will be forwarded to the FIP Executive Committee

and Bureau for information and to the Council for ratification

during the FIP Centennial Congress in Amsterdam, October 2012.

These mandates will be held from 2012 until 2016. Prof. Mitsuru

Hashida (Japan) will be the immediate past­chair of BPS for the

same period.

The BPS is pleased to congratulate Dr Malcolm Rowland (UK),

who received the prestigious Høst­Madsen Medal at the

Hyderabad Congress. The Høst­Madsen Medal is the highest

Pharmaceutical Science award of FIP and will be awarded every

two years, (in the odd years), at an annual FIP Congress.

Following a request from the FIP President and FIP CEO, the

Scientific Secretary (along with support from FIP staff and a

special programme committee), is in charge of organising a

special programme on World Pharmacopoeias in collaboration

with the World Health Organization (WHO), which will be part of

the Centennial Congress in Amsterdam.

FIP s strategic Pharmacy Educational initiative, FIPEd is in the

starting blocks, with Academia, Practice and Science needing to

work together to achieve holistic visions and goals for pharmacy

education spanning both science and practice. A combined

steering committee is currently operational.