This event discusses current evidence for the impact of the pharmaceutical workforce, pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science.  It discusses and evidence-based approach and identifies challenges and opportunities for generating evidence that will advance the profession.

Aim
To showcase how data and intelligence can be used to provide evidence of impact of pharmaceutical practice, science and education/workforce.

Learning objectives

• Discuss approaches to securing evidence for the impact of the pharmaceutical workforce and pharmaceutical services.
• Discuss strategies and programmes in place to enable timely access to safe, effective and affordable medicines.
• Identify challenges and opportunities for generating evidence of impact.

Moderator:
- Christopher John, FIP Lead for Data and Intelligence, UK

Panellist: 

- Noe Garin Escriva, Hospital Pharmacist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain
- Harriet Rachel Kagoya, Uganda
- Safa Damiati, Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Suadi Arabia
- Sherly Meilianti, FIP Data and Intelligence Specialist, Indonesia
- Hilwan Yuda Teruna, Vice President, Indonesian Pharmacists Association, Indonesia

Gastrointestinal health and digestive wellness can be influenced by several lifestyle factors, including diet and stress, and using certain types of medicines. It is important for pharmacists to consider these factors when interacting with patients who present with such symptoms. Different non-prescription medicines are available to treat symptoms related to GI complaints and digestive wellness, rendering pharmacies key access points for trusted advice and access to self-care products which can provide relief and care to affected individuals. This event marks the World Digestive Wellness Day (29 May).

By the end of the session participants should be able to:
• Understand the role of pharmacists in providing advice on digestive wellness
• Understand the relationship between gut wellness and immunity
• Identify practical ways to support better digestive wellness in the community

In order to ensure pharmacists maintain currency and quality in their practice, mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) programmes have been implemented by regulatory authorities as part of the licence renewal requirements for continuing practice. This webinar will provide information on the countries having a mandatory CPD programme, the various types of programmes, the regulations and the overall value and monitoring. In addition, information will be provided on CPD for specialized areas of practice, as part of returning to practice and some new concepts to insure currency and quality.

The attendees will learn:
-the overall importance of a mandated CPD programme from a quality assurance and patient safety perspective ;
-the variations of CPD programmes currently in place in various countries;
-the legislation/regulations in place mandating a CPD programme to maintain currency and enhance competence, quality assurance and patient safety;  
-recertification programs for "specialization" and "return to practice"; and,
-other innovative way to insure quality and currency of pharmacists.

Moderator:
- Brett Simmonds, Chair Pharmacy Board of Australia, Australia

Panelists:
- Carine Wolf-Thal, Chair of the National Council of the French Chamber of Pharmacists, France
- Michael Pead, Chief Executive Pharmacy Council of New Zealand, New Zealand
- Trish Farrelly, Manager Registration and Competence Assurance, Pharmacy Council of New Zealand, New Zealand
- Joe R. Anderson, Assistant Dean for Curricular Affairs and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, The University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, USA

Este webinar tiene como objetivo presentar los conceptos:

• Medicamentos genéricos
• Definiciones
• Qué es bioequivalencia?
• Tipos de estudios
• Estudios farmacocinéticos:

o Diseños
o Consideraciones clínicas, analíticas y estadísticas

• Casos especiales

Moderadora:
- Talita Ferreira, FIP Coordinadora de Proyectos de bioexención en Latinoamérica, Brasil

Panelista:
- Pablo González, CEO, Innovation and Biopharmaceutical Evaluation Center, Chile

Constipation is a common symptom pharmacists encounter in daily practice. It is often a self-limiting symptom that can be adequately managed in the community through the use of non-prescription medicines, as well as dietary and lifestyle measures. This event will explore how community pharmacists may support the management of constipation and empower individuals for optimal self-care.

By the end of the session participants should be able to:
• Understand the role of pharmacists in managing constipation in the community
• Understand the influence of fibre, exercise, and fluids in constipation
• Explore the complications of constipation medicines, especially in older adults

Current and future policy: enablers and barriers.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common chronic gastrointestinal disorder that affects people of all ages. Pharmacists can play an important role in symptom management, referral to other healthcare professionals and provision of advice to improve quality of life. This event will provide an overview of the main roles pharmacists can have in supporting people living with IBS, from a community pharmacy perspective.

By the end of the session participants should be able to:
• Discuss the role of community pharmacists around IBS
• Understand the difference in symptoms between abdominal cramping pain and IBS
• Identify red flag symptoms for referral of IBS patients

In many countries, vaccination coverage rates are suboptimal, and vaccination services are largely focused on childhood. Goals to expand vaccination pathways include to have more and more easily accessible vaccination points, and more professionals who can deliver the service to more people and offer evidence-based advice on vaccines. This event will discuss the drivers and barriers to interprofessional understanding, cooperation and task sharing in the area of vaccination in each region, and the regulatory authority granted to different healthcare professionals to prescribe and/or administer vaccines.

Learning objectives:
- Identify drivers and barriers related to the regulatory landscape of vaccination in the region
- Learn about examples of best practices in terms of interprofessional cooperation and task-sharing involving pharmacists in the area of vaccination
- Explore the plans for switching from a pandemic to an endemic response in the region, including the role of pharmacist in vaccination, and in patient care and treatment

The FIP Pharmacy Practice Research Special Interest Group (PPR SIG), in collaboration with Utrecht University and the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, is hosting an international event — “Pharmacy practice research summer meeting for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and supervisors” — on 4 and 5 July 2022 in Utrecht, Netherlands.

The main scope of the PPR SIG is to increase pharmacy practice contributions to global health by providing greater access to the latest high-quality international pharmacy practice research. During this meeting both starting-out and experienced researchers will be able to collaborate on major PPR themes.

PhD students and their supervisors, researchers, academics, professional organisations and practitioners involved in research are welcome to join this face-to-face meeting to present their work and to start building new global pharmacy networks.

Anyone can submit an abstract of their research before 15 April 2022. Every abstract will be reviewed through a competitive selection process by the conference committee. Selected authors will be invited to present their work either as a poster or as an oral presentation, as part of the event’s programme. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Pharmacy Education journal and the best presentation will receive 2022 FIP Pharmacy Practice Research Presentation Award!

To get more information about how and where to submit your abstract, click here.

All participants will receive certificates of attendance and those who present their research will also receive certificates of presentation.

The importance of good mental health and wellbeing has gained attention over the last decade due to an increased burden of disability and loss of quality of life associated with mental health conditions. Pharmacists have a role to play in the care and management of mental health illnesses and the stigma associated with them. FIP has developed a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of mental health-related services. This handbook — which will be launched at this event — also identifies the knowledge and skills that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to academic institutions and CPD providers. This handbook is part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Learning objectives:  

1. Explore the role of pharmacists in the identification, care and management of mental health illnesses;
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in addressing mental health illnesses;
3. Identify the relevant knowledge and skills required for the delivery of mental health-related services.

The 3rd International Pharmaceutical Conference and Expo (i-Pharma) welcomes you to London, UK on July 14-15, 2022 to share your research findings, promote knowledge exchange, and network with a broad audience in the field of pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

The i-Pharma Operating Committee invites the submission of abstracts covering a broad range of cross-cutting topics in the field of Drug Discovery and Development, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety, Novel Drug Delivery Systems and Drug therapy, Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Drug Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacology, Neuropharmacology, Nutraceuticals, Pharma Marketing, Orphan and Rare Disease etc for information exchange and a fertile ground for the establishment and encouraging multidisciplinary collaborative studies.

Conference Sessions:

• Recent Research and Development
• Drug Discovery and Development
• Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety
• Clinical Trials and Drug Regulatory Affairs
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• Novel Drug Delivery Systems and Drug therapy
• Vaccines in Specific
• Biopharmaceutical
• Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
• Analytical and Bioanalytical Techniques
• Cosmeceuticals

Current and future practice. Policy and professional enablers and barriers

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are two common chronic respiratory diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Pharmacists have an important role to play in their prevention, care and management. FIP has developed a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of chronic respiratory diseases-related services. This handbook — which will be launched at this event — also identifies the knowledge and skills that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to academic institutions and CPD providers. This handbook is part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Learning objectives:

1. Explore the role of pharmacists in the prevention, care and management of chronic respiratory diseases and its complications;
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in addressing chronic respiratory diseases;
3. Identify the relevant knowledge and skills required for the delivery of chronic respiratory diseases-related services.

The Glasgow International Health Festival (GIHF 2022) would bring together stakeholders in healthcare around the globe to not only brainstorm through some of the latest research data on healthcare but also show case some of the innovative discovery in the field. This edition will have renowned Scottish & international speakers, 500 delegates and more than 10 exhibitors to Glasgow. The GHF2022 would focus on health innovations in healthcare and will be held on 24-27 August 2022 at Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, Scotland.

Topics for GHF 2022

• Keynote Speeches
• Digital Health
• Pandemic Preparedness
• Biomedical Research
• Climate and Disease Modelling
• Drugs & Vaccine
• Global Health
• Population Health
• Clinical & Translational Sciences
• Clinical Nutrition
• Public Health
• Oncology
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Precision Medicine

Current and future science. Enablers and barriers to innovation and collaboration across pharmaceutical science.

Come to the 2022 FIP congress in Seville, Spain, where pharmacy practitioners, pharmaceutical scientists and educators from around the world will discuss and help you prepare for these new technologies that will empower our profession.

Previous industrial revolutions liberated humans from reliance on animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions. This latest industrial revolution is, however, fundamentally different. It is characterised by a range of technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting on all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.

Digitalisation is already allowing the keeping of structured patient records, facilitating electronic prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines, automating the handling of medicines in the supply chain, and providing tools for monitoring the efficacy and safety of medicines in use. Further advances will enable pharmacists to interact with patients through the creation of a common platform for accessing data and information in new, more efficient way.

This year's live virtual conference will feature renowned speakers in the field of pharmacogenomics who will focus on the healthcare value of pharmacogenomics. While the importance of tailoring drugs using genomics to reduce adverse drug reactions and improve efficacy is well established, economic evaluation of pharmacogenomics is still emerging. Payers, organizations who have implemented or are considering implementation are requiring economic evaluations, return on investment and cost/benefit analyses. Most clinicians are not aware of these data and its strengths and limitations.

A special addition to the conference this year is a one-day clinical case workshop completely devoted to working through real-world pharmacogenomic cases. Registration is now open. See website for more details.

The fuel behind the advancement of precision medicine is the rapid growth of underlying technologies, from high-throughput sequencing and imaging to machine learning and clinical decision support systems. What are the cutting-edge technologies and fields, and what trends can we expect in the future?

The webinar will cover:

- Ongoing technological developments

- Examples of clinical application of the above technologies in a research context

- Thoughts on future directions of the field, and unaddressed gaps

- Changes to pharmacy education that are needed for future pharmacists to be competent in implementing precision medicine practices effectively

- Gaps and challenges in the field that pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists could address

The World Drug Safety Congress Europe is set to bridge the gap between international regulatory bodies, industry professionals and academic representatives and will address how to drive pharmacovigilance operations forward. We’ll bring together 600+ key thought leaders to explore challenges within pharmacovigilance. Explore the use of big data and AI in pharmacovigilance, examine benefit-risk management strategies and patient-centric approaches; discuss how you can tackle the challenges of social media and drug safety legislation globally.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, accounting for 9.6 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Pharmacists have a role to play in ensuring the prevention, in supporting patients to undergo frequent screening or even collaborate in screening campaigns for certain types of cancer, in managing oncological medication for optimal outcomes, in supporting self-care and the management of symptoms that some treatments might cause and in providing emotional support. FIP has developed a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of cancer-related services. This handbook — which will be launched at this event — also identifies the knowledge and skills that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to academic institutions and CPD providers. This handbook is part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

 Learning objectives:

1. Explore the role of pharmacists in the prevention, care and management of cancer;
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in addressing cancer;
3. Identify the relevant knowledge and skills required for the delivery of cancer-related services.

The World Health Organization estimate that 17.9 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, representing 32% of all global deaths. Pharmacists have a role to play in the prevention, care and management of cardiovascular diseases and their complications. FIP has developed a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of cardiovascular diseases-related services. This handbook — which will be launched at this event — also identifies the knowledge and skills that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to academic institutions and CPD providers. This handbook is part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Learning objectives:

1. Explore the role of pharmacists in the prevention, care and management of cardiovascular diseases and their complications;
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in addressing cardiovascular diseases;
3. Identify the relevant knowledge and skills required for the delivery of cardiovascular diseases-related services.

Current and future pharmaceutical education. Enablers and barriers to innovation and high quality education.

Among the greatest bottlenecks for the widespread implementation of precision medicine is the growing costs of the associated technologies. It also brings new challenges for health technology assessment, with cost-utility becoming more difficult to evaluate and predict at finer levels of patient stratification. What are these challenges? How could we address them? How might we go about refining precision medicine strategies to maximize cost utility?

The webinar will cover:

- The current health technology assessment stance on precision medicine applications

- What we know and what we don’t know about the cost-utility of new precision medicine approaches against the standard of care

- How costs may evolve with emerging technologies or trends

- Priorities for future health economics research in this area