2022: Brian Cicali, USA

Brian Cicalu will conduct a project titled “Model-informed Evidence Approach for Pediatric and Neonate Dosing of Tramadol. Results will be reported at the 2023 FIP World Congress in September 2023.

2020: Dallas Smith, Malawi

Dallas Smith is a recent PharmD graduate with a passion for equitable pharmaceutical interventions. He is a clinical pharmacy and pharmacognosy lecturer at the College of Medicine, University of Malawi. His project explores the role of an ambulatory care pharmacist in an outpatient hypertension clinic in urban Malawi. Through capacity building in this local pharmacist, this study will evaluate blood pressure control and medication adherence through medication therapy management (MTM) services. Dallas hopes the outcomes of this data will encourage public and private entities in Malawi to employ ambulatory pharmacists and expand the role of the pharmacy profession
 

2019: Shepard Nqobile Mhlaba, Zimbabwe

Shepard Mhlaba is a Young Pharmacist from Zimbabwe, with keen interest in Global Health. He has served the International Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists Group as a Subcommittee Member and is currently serving FIP as Global Lead for Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Hub. His research on integrating supply chain management practices in community pharmacies and information technology was inspired by the disheartening poor supply chain practices affecting developing countries. This has resulted in significant expired medicines. His research aims to improve access to medicines and also to give a step towards universal health coverage by ensuring effective use of available scarce resources.

2018: Jack Collins, Australia

Jack is a PhD candidate at The University of Sydney and a practising community pharmacist in Australia. Jack’s area of research is the role of the community pharmacy in consumer  self-care. His project explores whether implicit (unconscious) racial bias is present in practising community pharmacists  through the use of simulated patients. Through this pilot research, Jack aims to determine to what extent implicit racial bias is present and then use these findings to go on to explore other potential biases and eventually develop interventions to address this bias to improve the uniformity of patient care regardless of patient demography.

2017: Chelsea Thorn, Australia

Chelsea is a PhD candidate from the University of  South Australia and a registered pharmacist in Australia. Her project focuses on identifying new solutions to treat highly tolerant bacterial infections relating to biofilms. The direction is to deliver antibiotics with biofilm-dispersing enzymes through a nano-carrier delivery formulation. With the innovative formulation, Chelsea is attempting to improve the efficacy of infection treatment, especially for the drug-tolerant infections.

2016: Ekpenyong Aniekan, Nigeria

Ekpenyong’s project was about developing adequate human resources for pharmacy in developing countries. It was piloted in Nigeria and involved using data to make a five-year trend assessment and in-depth analysis of the pharmacy workforceacross 36 states to inform workforce planning and policy development.

2015 Arcelio Benetoli, Australia

Arcelio was a PhD candidate in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Sydney, and before that received his MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the State University of Maringa,
Brazil. His research focused on how consumers use social media for health purposes. The research comprised an observational study which identified chronic disease public Facebook groups whose content was quantitatively and qualitatively analysed and consumer focus groups. Understanding how consumers use social media will assist health care providers in guiding consumers in their social media health journey; and importantly, help design innovative ways to deliver care via social media, accessing people who may not visit health care professionals regularly.

2014 Vivian Tong, Australia

Vivian was a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney. Her PhD focus was on optimising written medicine information to support safe and appropriate consumer use of over-the-counter medicines. The research focus for the YPG grant was to develop and test alternative standardised over-the-counter medicine label formats. The new labels were informed by consumer opinions and good information design. Vivian found that the new labels performed well when user tested and consumers were able to find and understand key points of information about their medicine.

Mike How Travel Award

The Mike How Travel Award was created in 2007 in honour of Mike How who dedicated much of his time and efforts to the promotion of industrial pharmacy, particularly towards young pharmacists and pharmacy students. The award is granted to young pharmacists or pharmacy students who have shown keen interest and passion for industrial pharmacy.

The Mike How Travel Award is a collaboration between the ECPG, FIP’s Industrial Pharmacy Section, and the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF). It supports ECPG or IPSF members involved in the development, manufacturing and regulatory aspects of pharmaceuticals and includes:

• Up to €1,500 to be used in support of transport, accommodation and registration for the annual FIP congress
• Free attendance to Industrial Pharmacy Section pre-satellite workshops at the FIP congress
• Invitation to the Industrial Pharmacy Section dinner

Information about how to apply for this grant in 2023 will be emailed to ECPG members.

The 2020 Mike How awardee was Joyce Marianne J. Alvarez, a fifth-year bachelor of Science in Industrial Pharmacy student from the University of Philippines, Manila.

The 2019 Mike How awardee was Bakani Mark Ncube, a 2019 B.Pharm (Hons.) graduate of the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.

The 2018 Mike How awardee was Isaac Nii Ofoli Anang, a sixth year PharmD student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

The 2017 Mike How awardee was Muoh Joanne Chinemerem, a fifth year PharmD student at Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology, Ghana.