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21 delegates were awarded FIP awards today during the final plenary session of the 2026 FIP world congress. Abstracts for the winning presentations, as well as all posters presented throughout the week, can be accessed on the congress app or through the Pharmacy Education journal. The awardees are as follows:
Academic Pharmacy Section
- Jacquiline McLaughlin (USA), Best Oral Presentation titled "Student engagement and uptake of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-supported feedback in a pharmaceutical sciences course"
- Claude Mailhot (Canada), Best Poster Presentation titled "Strengthening Pharmacy Education through international formative peer evaluation"
Community Pharmacy Section
- Julie Desombre (Belgium), Best Oral Presentation titled "A forecasting dashboard for reimbursed drug consumption in Belgium: Trends in DDD, volume and expenditure"
- Carlos Neira Ibacache (Chile), Best Poster Presentation for Innovation of Pharmacy Practice, titled "Evaluation of the influence of media on self-medication among users attending a community pharmacy"
- Su-Kyeong Kim (South Korea), Best Poster Presentation for Impact on Policy and Practice, titled "Patient safety and medication error reporting in community pharmacies: Results of a national survey of pharmacists in South Korea"
Health and Medicines Information Section
- Abdullahi Noor (Kenya), FIP Travel Grant Award
- Nisreen Mourad (Lebanon), Best Poster Award titled "Medication Non-Adherence Among Migraine Patients in Lebanon: A Multidimensional Analysis using the LMAS-14"
- Sally Arif (USA), Best Oral Presentation titled "Implementation of a student pharmacist-led community health awareness program to enhance health access in an Arab-American immigrant community"
- Elaine Lum (Singapore), Best Oral Presentation titled "Novel design methods for antimicrobial resistance awareness campaigns that work"
Hospital Pharmacy Section
- Cam Anh Tran Phan (UK), Best Oral Presentation titled "Safety of intravenous therapy in the home: A scoping review"
- Hana Amer (Australia), Best Poster Presentation titled "The Clinical and Healthcare System Outcomes of Pharmacist Prescribing in the Hospital Inpatient System"
Industrial Pharmacy Section (IPS)
- Sarah Ibrahim (USA), IPS 2026 Medal
- Tan Siew Mei (Malaysia), Mike How Travel Award
- Jonas Schäfer (Germany), Best Industrial Poster titled "Imprints on oral solid dosage forms: A comparison of pad and design roll printing"
- Ngozi Udem (Nigeria), Best Oral Presentation titled "Formulation and evaluation of antibacterial herbal creams"
Social and Administrative Pharmacy Section
- Andrea Bishop (Canada), Best Oral Presentation titled "Staffing and workload initiative for safety and effectiveness (StaffWISE): Leveraging regulatory research to drive pharmacy quality and practitioner wellbeing"
- Alexandra Atienza (Philippines), Best Poster Presentation titled "Career shifting of Filipino pharmacists: Factors affecting changing profession"
- Livia Maria de Souza Goncalves (Brazil), inaugural Congress Attendance Grant
FIP Special Interest Group on Drug Delivery and Manufacturing
- Mitsuki Ono (Japan), Best Poster Presentation titled "Molecular design, chemical synthesis and transport evaluation of creatine prototypes"
FIP Special Interest Group on Pharmacy Practice Research
- Shania Liu (Australia), Best Oral Presentation titled "PROACT study: A randomised controlled trial of an electronic tool to help pharmacists implement cardiovascular risk reduction"
- Yassine Dhif (Switzerland), Best Poster Presentation titled "From transparency to resilience: A cross-sector pharmacy-led surveillance model to analyse drug shortages across hospital and community care"
Congratulations to all the award recipients!