Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions to mitigate the burden of disease and saves millions of lives per year. The role of pharmacists as widely documented during the pandemic further reemphasizes the importance of pharmacy-based vaccination in health promotion. The strategic use of vaccination surveillance data can inform and shape public health policies and vaccination approaches. This event will explore the use of surveillance data using international examples of pharmacy-based vaccination services and advocate for extended pharmaceutical services in vaccination. The event will additionally present other global vaccination data-driven projects and their use in policy making.
Moderator: - Ian Bates, Director, Global Pharmaceutical Observatory, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), United Kingdom - Gonçalo Sousa Pinto, Lead for Practice Development and Transformation, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Spain
Panellists: - Kate O’Brien, Director, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization - Katrina Bouzanis, Director, Policy and Advocacy, International Federation on Ageing, Canada - Farah Aqqad, Data Integration Specialist, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Jordan - Sherly Meilianti, FIP Data and Intelligence Specialist, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), United Kingdom
The FIP Pharmacy Practice Research Special Interest Group (PPR SIG) is hosting another international event — “Pharmacy practice research summer meeting for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and supervisors” — on 4 and 5 July 2024. This time the event will be online and the attendance will be free of charge.
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 given an opportunity to present their PPR research to an international audience.
PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, academics, and practitioners involved in research are welcome to join this virtual meeting to present their research and disseminate their findings in a specialised forum .