Traditionally, the distribution of medicines to consumers has been organized through heavily regulated networks of physical pharmacies. The strict regulation of market structure has been in place to ensure the safety, accessibility and affordability of medicines, but it has also limited competition in the pharmacy sector. Nowadays, the regulation of pharmacies differs between countries, and this has created different market conditions for online pharmacies to operate.

In some countries the online sales of medicines have grown considerably during the recent years as consumers have become more accustomed to e-commerce. More lately the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped the e-commerce landscape. Due to the pandemic, the demand for online services of pharmacies has increased significantly in many countries. It is also likely that this has changed preferences for some consumers permanently and demand should therefore remain at a higher level in the future.

Increased cooperation between countries in developing regulation of online pharmacies is needed, according to the report, “Online pharmacy operations and distribution of medicines”, which will be published by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) on December 8th, 2021.

Moderator:

• Lars-Åke Söderlund, FIP Vice President, Executive Advisor, Apoteket AB, Sweden, Sweden

Co-Moderator:

• Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Lecturer, Health Service Management, Charles Stuart University, Australia

Panellist:

• Catherine Duggan, FIP CEO, The Netherlands
• Manjiri Gharat, Principal, K. M. Kundnani Pharmacy Polytechnic, India
  
• Sari Westermarck, Community pharmacist, Finland
  
• Jacqueline Surugue, Immediate Past Vice President FIP, France
• Nadia Al Mazrouei, Assistant Professor, Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates (UAE) 
• Jorge Schlottke, Pharmacist, Centro Oncológico Integral de la Provincia de San Luis, Argentina
• John Jackson, President, Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum, Australia  
• Prosper Hiag, President, African Pharmaceutical Forum, Cameroon
• Jaime Acosta-Gómez, Community Pharmacist and pharmacy owner, Farmacia Acosta, Spain

Summary
There is variability across the globe in the provision of universal healthcare. Self-care is the ability to maintain and improve individual’s health, prevent or limit diagnosed illnesses, and address self-treatable conditions. Self care is not no care and it is not necessarily practised in isolation. It may involve support and advice from others, such as expert pharmacy teams.  This event discusses how self-care can contribute to Universal Health Coverage from the perspectives of providers of healthcare services and public and patients. 

Aim: To discuss the perspectives of providers of healthcare services and the people accessing them about how self-care can contribute to universal health coverage.

Learning objectives: 

• Explain the extent to which self-care is embedded in healthcare systems;
• Discuss cultural approaches to enabling self-care as part of UHC, such as healthy lifestyles;
• List healthcare systems and patients/public’s needs for enabling self-care;
• Discuss the contribution of localised self-care delivery to UHC

Moderator:

• Sham Moodley, Community Pharmacist, Member of the FIP Community Pharmacy Section, South Africa

Panellist:

• K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, India
  
• Jacqueline Bowman-Busato, Co-Founder, Belgian Private Foundation Pate Adiposité Adipositas Pacte, Belgium
• Dave Burrows, CEO and CTO, Damibu, UK

The FIP Development Goals Digital Programme “Setting goals for the decade ahead” is a comprehensive online event series providing coverage of the 21 goals over 21 events in 2021. Starting in March, the 21 digital events aim to provide description, direction and context for each specific goal, with a global plan for the decade ahead and how each nation, within each region can identify and prioritise which goals are the priorities and how the goals can support developments and transformation for them. The 20^th episode of the Programme focuses on FIP Development Goal 14: Medicines Expertise. The details of the Goal are available here: https://www.fip.org/fip-development-goal-14

The expected outcomes of the event are:

1. Describe the FIP Development Goals and explain the components of DG 14 (and its three elements: workforce & education, science and practice).
2. Showcase the FIP tools, evidence, and resources to support DG 14 implementation across the three elements.
3. Identify priorities across practice, science, and workforce & education within DG 14
4. Discuss the importance monitoring and evaluation through data evidence and engage participants with FIP indicators development project

Moderator:

• Dalia Bajis, FIP Lead for Provision and Partnership, Bahrain 

Panellist:

• Hala Fadda, Chair of FIP Pediatric Formulations Focus Group, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Buter University, USA
• Sham Moodley, Pharmacist, FIP CPS Exco Member, Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa/Independent Community Pharmacy Assoc (ICPA), South Africa

This is an important event in the region due to the presence of international, well-known, keynote speakers and the participation and support of international associations. The event will bring together regulatory and science key professionals as well pharmaceutical industry and academia to share experiences, perspectives, insights and the latest regulation and technical development.

The Theme of this conference is the regulatory aspects related to bioequivalence and the objective is to discuss current international trends and updates in bioequivalence assessment, biowaivers, bioanalytics, dissolution and procedures. 

The conference will provide a unique opportunity for regulators, members of the pharmaceutical industry and academics in MENA region to interact with international experts and obtain information on current and innovative trends in the areas of bioequivalence, biowaivers, bioanalysis, and dissolution testing.

In October-2021, FIP-UNITWIN Regional Workshops brought FIP’s member academic institutions, professional organisations, key pharmacy stakeholders and guests across all regions together to co-create a roadmap to advance pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences in their region through educational partnerships. At the FIP-UNITWIN Global Summit on pharmaceutical education, participants will.

Learning objectives:
1. Learn about their regions’ roadmap on advancing pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education;
2. Explore FIP’s global call to action on pharmaceutical education to support it across their regions and countries;
3. Discover country cases and next steps of the FIP-UNITWIN Centres for Excellence programme

Chairs:

• Catherine Duggan, FIP CEO
• Ralph J. Altiere, FIPEd Chair

Speakers:

• Dominique Jordan, FIP President
• Luis Lorenco, FIP Professional Secretary
• Giovanni Pauletti, FIP Scientific Secretary
• Pierre Moreau, FIP AIM Chair

Panellists:

• Anne Anderson Vice Chair, UK National Commission for UNESCO
• Toyin Tofade, President-Elect of the FIP Academic Pharmacy Section (AcPS) & FIP AIM Advisory Committee Member
• Silvana Nair Leite, FIP AIM Advisory Committee member
• Lilian Azzopardi, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Aukje Mantel-Teeuwisse,FIP Digital Health in Pharmacy Education Report Chair, FIP Technology Forum Member, FIP APS Executive Committee Member
• Beom-Jin Lee, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Rajani Shakya, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Mohamad Rahal, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Rula Darwish, Academic Pharmacy Section Exco
• Paul J. Gallagher, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Mwila Chiluba, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Yahya Choonara, AIM Advisory Committee member
• Arinola Joda, Asst. Secretary/Editor in Chief, APF

Facilitators:

• Nilhan Uzman, FIP Lead for education policy and implementation
• Ozge Ozer, FIP Educational Partnership Coordinator
• Alison Ubong Etukakpan, FIP Educational Partnership Coordinator

The Global Advanced development framework (GADF) was developed to support the professional development and recognition of the pharmacy workforce everywhere and the Global Competency Framework (GbCF) was developed by the FIP as a focused support structure for early career pharmacists.  This digital event seeks to create more awareness for the GADF and GbCF and to enable early career pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists have a better understanding of their structure.

Competency framework- A complete collection of competencies that are thought to be essential to performance.

Competencies – Knowledge, skills, behaviors and attitudes that individuals accumulate, develops, and acquires through the education, training and work experience.

Learning objectives:

• Describe the purpose and applications of both the Global Advanced Development Framework (GADF) and the Global competency framework (GbCF);
• Summarize the domains and illustrative competencies from the GbCF for pharmaceutical services (scientific knowledge and management knowledge)
• Identify an individual learning plan based on their learning needs obtained from the self-assessment of GbCF;
• Discuss approach to building a professional practice portfolio.

Moderator:

• Ayodeji Matuluko, Remote Volunteer, FIP Commission on AMR, PhD Candidate, Glasgow Caledonian University, Nigeria

The FIP Development Goals Digital Programme “Setting goals for the decade ahead” is a comprehensive online event series providing coverage of the 21 goals over 21 events in 2021. Starting in March, the 21 digital events aim to provide description, direction and context for each specific goal, with a global plan for the decade ahead and how each nation, within each region can identify and prioritise which goals are the priorities and how the goals can support developments and transformation for them.

This programme is all about engaging the profession and supporting the profession to deliver in relevant and purposeful ways. By engaging our profession, members & colleagues everywhere with these relevant and applicable goals for the decade ahead, we can provide tools, monitoring and evaluation through data evidence, and identifying priorities across practice, science, and workforce & education.

Find out more about the FIP Development Goals here: www.fip.org/fip-development-goals

Summary

Pharmacy teams are increasingly supporting children and their carers with self-care. This webinar will focus particularly on appropriate management of choices of medicines and products to support children’s health, and the role of the pharmacist. A case study will be presented and the event will conclude with a panel discussion.

Aim: To identify how the community pharmacy team can support self-care of common health problems for children and their carers.

Learning objectives: 

1. Increase awareness of children’s health issues, how common they are, what impacts they have and how they can be managed;
2. Learn how to support carers and children with common health issues;
3. Discuss appropriate management in the choice of medicines and products.
4. Describe the role that pharmacist and their team can play in advising and educating carers and children so they can self-care.

Moderator:

• Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Lecturer in health services management and leadership, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Panellist:

• Hadi Dassouki, Community Pharmacist, Lebanon
• Jack Collins, Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Australia
• Joanne Crook, Consultant Pharmacist Paediatrics, Kings College Hospital, UK
  

At this event on World Cancer Day, we will explore the different aspects around pharmacist care on cancer and raise awareness on the importance of supporting cancer patients throughout their journey. This event will have a more general focus on multi- and inter-professional approaches to cancer management, including pharmacists. In a discussion format, topics such as prevention and screening, access to cancer treatments, adherence and continuity across transitions of care across would be addressed by various stakeholders.

Learning Objectives

• Understand areas where healthcare professionals can support cancer patients.
• Discuss the importance of supporting patients in a multi- and inter-professional approach
• Explore issues on the transitions of care, adherence to treatments and prevention and screening in cancer care

Cancer care through the community pharmacies is increasingly more important as services such as the dispensing of cancer drugs and management of symptoms related to cancer treatments are available around the world.

This event will have a focus on community pharmacy services aiming at patients living with cancer, general screening and referral actions through pharmacists and educational campaigns aiming at prevention and cancer management.

Learning Objectives

• Explore the role of community pharmacists in supporting cancer care
• Discuss prevention and detection services for cancer through community pharmacies
• Identify novel services in cancer treatment and the impact those can have in the cancer patient

Malaria is responsible for approximately 400 thousand deaths annually, resulting in an enormous public health burden on many of the tropical and subtropical countries. Although projects are ongoing in WHO, pharmaceutical companies and foundations, basic university-based research is also essential against for treatment and drug resistance in malaria. Engagement of young pharmaceutical scientists in the field is necessary to overcome this situation.

In this event, young PI and early carrier scientists / PhD students related to this scientific subject will be invited as speaker. Dr Eizo Takashima, Ehime University, Japan was invited as a speaker for preliminary lecture, and provide opportunity for young scientists to discuss about the science of malaria.

Learning objectives:

• Describe the development of malaria vaccine candidates.
• Defineseroepidemiology of malaria
• Recognize how early carrier pharmaceutical scientists can be involved in research on drug and vaccine development of malaria.

Moderator:
- Takuya Kumamoto, Prof, Hiroshima University, Japan

Co-moderator:
- Rebecka Isaksson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCL Department of Chemistry, UK

Panellist:
- Eizo Takashima. Associate Professor, Ehime University, Japan

Pharmacists in the hospital setting can contribute to the management of cancer drugs, support patients with their therapies and provide them with education and support.

This event will have a focus on hospital pharmacy services aiming at patients living with cancer and actions focusing on the improvement of transitions of care to the community, including the access to cancer treatments.