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Dear IPSFers,

Pharmacy education team including PE subcomitte, coordinators and myself are commited this year to report to you, on monthly basis, our work as well as news and opportunities in the Pharmacy Education Newsletter.

In this issue, you will understand better the thin ice between PE and PH. The most expressive example is AIDS awareness oublic health campaign which has a great part of education in order to prevent the disease. Mr. Nezerwa attended AIDS 2012 in Washington D.C. and he is sharing his wonderful experience with you. A must-read !

Also, this close realtionship makes a lot of students choose career paths orinetated to PH. Ms.Ho will tell you about the number 1 PH master’s in the world at Hopkins. A chef-d’oeuvre !

Furthermore, there are some news about recent events and meetings. Ms.Neier will tell you about one of our most active partners : Alliance for Health Promotion. Ms.Neier attended a meeting with AHP executives, on behalf of IPSF in Geneva. And Ms.keun who was active in IPSF in the last years is sharing with us a unique experience about BioKorea 2012. This famous event has symposia ,conferences and exhibitions.

Finally, compiling these highly informative articles took us time. But, we want the best for you.

Thanks to the authors, to Alexandra for the beautiful designs et Viva la pharmacy !

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Bio Korea 2012Keun Hyung Kim

AIDS 2012Méthode Nezerwa

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Mr. Jason HongMs. Yuqian LiuMs. Neo E-on

Ms. Hannah Svedlung

IPSF Chairperson of Media and Publications

know IPSF partnersAlliance for Health

PromotionCarine Neier

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Pharmacy Schools Carine Neier

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Pharmacy + Public Health = Awesomeness

Jane Ho

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7th Bio Korea 2012The 7th BIO KOREA 2012 Conference & Exhibition

took place from the 12th to the 14th of September, 2012 at KINTEX, which is located just outside Seoul. It is currently one of the most comprehensive bio-technology events, providing a great opportunity for both domestic and foreign investors to meet fast growing Korean bio companies and leading Korean research institutions. The event was largely divided into two sections – the conference section and the exhibition section. There was also a business forum for Korean and international companies. This year there were a total of 17,877 participants, of which 965 were from overseas – an increase of about 15% compared to the previous year.

Conference

BIO KOREA 2012 Conference was a place to dis-cuss and acquire the latest knowledge on various topics including vaccines, clinical trials, regenera-tive medicine, bio energy, GMO, functional food, technology transfer and licensing, attracting invest-ments, industrial policies and systems.

There were 17 tracks, 39 sessions with 202 speak-ers (66 overseas), chairs and panels and 3,352 at-tendees (178 overseas) for this year’s conference. The seminars focused on practical business and biotechnology application. There were also special sessions that overviewed the regulatory affairs and pharmaceutical business for the emerging markets, and also the vision of the pharmaceutical market trend.

Exhibition

BIO KOREA 2012 Conference was a place to dis-cuss and acquire the latest knowledge on various topics including vaccines, clinical trials, regenera-tive medicine, bio energy, GMO, functional food, technology transfer and licensing, attracting invest-ments, industrial policies and systems.

There were 490 booths opened by 280 compa-nies (87 overseas) and a total of 13,139 people (435 overseas) attended the exhibitions.

Business Forum

The BIO KOREA Business Forum provided a place for companies to discover the present and future trends of bio technology. A total of 313 companies (141 overseas) were present – a total of 1,386 at-tendees (352 overseas).

The following were organized for the benefit of leading bio companies:

Providing the opportunity for business coopera-tion and joint research between Korean or overseas bio companies and researchers, BIO KOREA 2012 Business Forum offers its participants Partnering, where companies with the same interests meet and form partnerships through pre-organized one-on-one online meetings and Business/Technology Presentation, where advanced technologies and business strategies are introduced.

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BIO KOREA 2012 Business Forum provided compa-nies with the opportunity to enter into business or technology partnership with leading bio companies in Korea and other parts of the world and was a ven-ue for communication and prosperity in businesses. There will be more customized and differentiated services provided this year, being the path of suc-cessful technology transfer, joint research and invest-ment attraction.

Keun Hyung KimRepublic of Korea

 

 

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AIDS 2012The Opportunity to Nurture Our Pharmacy Education

The XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), which is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals com-mitted to ending the pandemic, brought together 23,767 participants from 183 countries. The confer-ence officially opened on 22 July and closed 27 July 2012 as scheduled at the Walter E. Washington Con-vention Center (WCC), in Washington, DC. USA. It has been a tremendous opportunity for pharmacy students, and students in general, to meet research-ers, scientists , pharmacists, owners of pharmaceu-tical companies and other various intellectuals from around the world and to share one another’s experi-ences and nurture their pharmacy career.

AIDS 2012 Opening Session Elly Katabira, AIDS 2012 International Chair, President International AIDS Society and Professor of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

The AIDS 2012 programme presented new scien-tific knowledge and provide participants with many opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills . A variety of educational events–from abstract-driven presentations to symposia, workshops, bridging and plenary sessions –met the needs of participat-ing students. Other related activities, including the Global Village, satellite meetings, exhibitions and

affiliated independent events, will contribute to an exceptional opportunity for professional develop-ment and networking.

Abstract Mentor Programme

The goal of the AIDS 2012 Abstract Mentor Pro-gramme was to provide an opportunity for young and/or less experienced abstract submitters to ask for feedback from experienced abstract submitters. The programme especially targeted researchers, including students from resource-limited settings who lack access to opportunities for rigorous men-toring in research and writing, and for whom on-line distance education is proven to cost-effectively build research capacity.

The programme was completely independent of the abstract review and selection process and is entirely dependent on volunteer experienced researchers acting as mentors. Mentors answered questions on practical issues, such as formal re-quirements on abstract writing and on the quality of the data collected.

Over the years, the programme has proven to increase motivation and acceptances of abstracts from early-career researchers and from submitters from developing countries.

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Global VillageAIDS2012 Global Village: The Indigenous Circle

The Global Village was a diverse and vibrant space where community gathers from all over the world to meet, share and learn from each other. It was a space for community to demonstrate the ap-plication of science and good leadership. It was also a space that invites conference participants to see how science translates into community action and interventions.

Female Condom Fashion Show

The Global Village promoted networking be-tween north and south, east and west and provides a space for displays, discussions and performances from throughout the world. The Global Village was open to the general public and conference dele-gates and admission was free.

AIDS 2012 International Community Science and Treat-ment Pre-Conference Workshop

The Black AIDS Institute hosted a Black Advocates Delegation (B.A.D.) from cities across the world to provide scientific training and opportunities to meet Leading researchers, clinicians, treatment ad-vocates and plenary speakers. This was a two-day International Community Science and Treatment Workshop for the delegation before the conference, hosted by George Washington University, offering presentations from leading researchers from around the world. As a B.A.D. delegates , we also received guidance on how to host a Post-Conference hubs

in our local communities after the Conference. The workshop particularly focused on topics like the cure, vaccine development, hepatitis C, PrEP, micro-bicides and treatment as prevention.

In order to become a 7+1 star pharmacist, phar-macy students need to acquire various knowledge, experiences and skills. Conferences provide stu-dents with the skill set that are not found in classes. The XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)in Washington , DC has been the opportunity to nurture the 7+1 star pharmacist as recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the In-ternational Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).

Méthode Nezerwa

IPSF Medicine Awareness Campaign Coordinator

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PENknow IPSF partners

This September, I represented IPSF in the board meet-ing of the Alliance for Health Promotion in Geneva. The Alliance is a partnership of NGOs, Civil Society and other stakeholders committed to health promotion. They aim at helping to close the implementation gap in Health Promotion, focusing on integrating local knowledge as a community asset, thereby empowering and encour-aging communities to take responsibility for their own health.

The main discussion point of the meeting was the evaluation of the first community level International Health Promotion Workshop which they had organized this August in Kitale, Kenya.

One of the conclusions they made from observations on the ground was that there is still a very strong need for health promotion in those places. They noticed a tendency to focus on the medical aspects of providing technologies and drugs while neglecting public health aspects and people’s everyday lives as well as how they can avoid bad health choices. It doesn’t make sense to wait until the moment when we can treat patients and when we could be helping them to avoid health prob-lems. Some simple, cheap things such as availability of disinfectants and education on hygiene have a tremen-dous impact on people’s health. Dealing with avoid-able infections and disease complications is an efficient, powerful way to improve health in many regions of the world.

Doctors who participated in the workshop were very enthusiastic, because health promotion was not some-thing they had been trained for. Besides, this is one of the reasons why the Alliance is eager to include students in their activities because we can help to close this gap in the medical education system. We can put pressure on our universities to have those subjects included in the curriculum so that we would be able to communicate

with our peers and educate ourselves as well as raise awareness among medical students on the importance of health promotion. We can organize and participate in campaigns.

One other very positive and inspiring outcome of the workshop was that it promoted knowledge sharing within the community. Interested people from various backgrounds participated, and asked questions, and there were often others among them in the audience, who had answers to those questions. Rather than bring-ing answers and solutions from abroad, these have built up a sustainable local health promotion system. This is also something that we can learn from: We should estab-lish contact and learn to collaborate not only with other important actors of our healthcare system, but also with important members of our communities.

Making sure that once ‘trendy’ issues such as public health are not forgotten after international conferences and making sure a follow-up actually takes place to de-termine if those policies are successfully being imple-mented are important issues. NGOs can play a role in this area by monitoring the fate of policies decided in big health conferences such as the World Health Assem-bly, and reporting on gaps that they observe.

We, as future pharmacists, can potentially do much to improve the lives of others around us, and only by ac-tively committing to that goal, educating ourselves and participating in our communities can we make the most of our education and fulfill that role.

The Alliance for Health Promotion is organizing their 2nd Health Promotion Forum in Geneva, November 19-20th 2012. For more information and registration, see: http://www.ngos4healthpromotion.net

Carine Neier

Alliance for Health Promotion

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FIP Education Initiatives and WHO are implementing a global survey that aims to collect information:

To ascertain the educational background of the pharmacy workforce and production capacity;

To ascertain quality assurance accreditation mechanisms and processes.

The data will be used to identify gaps, shortages and cooperation opportunities, besides provid-ing the evidence-based information needed for investment policies that will reduce existing gaps

and increase pharmacy education capacity.

The participation of all pharmacy education institutions in this survey is vital to provide a better understanding of current pharmacy education issues, and will assist in the development of global

pharmacy education policy recommendations.

For these reasons, FIP and WHO have sent an invitation to the Deans of all schools of pharmacy to complete the Global Survey of Pharmacy Schools. Please help us by ensuring that your Dean or School leader has completed the survey for your pharmacy school/faculty/department [www.fip.

org/education].

Should you wish to provide data on behalf of your school or your country please contact Andreia Bruno education@fip.org to obtain the information to be able to complete the survey. If you have any comments or

questions concerning the project please send them to education@fip.org.

A million thanks in advance for your help!FIPEd Development Team

FIP-WHO Global Survey of Pharmacy Schools

Has your school responded?

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Introduction

Greetings to pharmacy students worldwide from the Bloomberg school of Public Health, Johns Hop-kins University here in Bal-timore, the USA. My name is Jane Ai-Chen Ho, a phar-macy graduate from Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. I am currently a first

year Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) student in Health Education & Health Communication at the Department of Health, Behavior & Society. My journey from Taipei to Baltimore has been an adventurous one which involved my favorite organization in the world: the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF). I have been involved in IPSF for the past six years starting nationally as a Contact Person (CP), regionally as the Regional Relations Officer (RRO) for the Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) and internationally as the Chair-person of Public Relations 2009-2010 and Chairperson of External Relations 2010-2011. This year I was voted by the General Assembly as an IPSF Honorary Life Member (HLM) which I am very grateful and proud of. Looking back, it is because of these active participations interna-tionally that has broaden my view tremendously and see a great potential for pharmacists in the development of public health field.

Why Pharmacy + Public Health?

Let me ask a simple question: which health care pro-fessional is the most accessible to the community? (and one that you are actually given the time to ask questions on health-related issues) I hope all your answers would be: the pharmacist! Yes! A community pharmacist is the most accessible health care professional in the commu-nity 1. A community pharmacy provides a comfortable, friendly environment where community members could discuss their medication, health problems and ques-tions with a community pharmacist. (If my former de-scription does not match the condition to the commu-nity pharmacy around you, I urge you to think of ways to change it, even if its little by little, you can make a difference where you are! ) Here is a general definition of public health “the art and science in dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science.”2 When we put the most accessible health care professional in the community and public health together, we can see the important roles in which community pharmacists could play in the community. By providing professional medi-cation counseling, effective health education services (for example: programs on smoking cessation, healthy lifestyles for chronic illnesses) and regular health promo-tional activities in the community, community pharma-cists can improve the health of a community significant-ly. I hope this lights a fire in you realizing how important you are or you will be in the future to your community. (For those who wants to be a hospital pharmacists, just as wonderful! I hope there are significant developments in clinical pharmacy where you are!)

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What am I learning in public health?

My particular interests lies in studying the increasing roles of pharmacists engaging in public health issues such as providing health education services, for exam-ple counseling for smoking cessation or weight man-agement programs whereby pharmacists are receiving supports from the government for these health pro-moting provisions. Before I could get into those kind of studies, I am improving the essential skills in evidence-based public health planning, and integration & evalu-ation of health education programs as a MSPH stu-dent in health education and health communication. Both health education and communication are areas in which healthcare professionals would benefit sig-nificantly from learning sustainable health promotion, education and persuasive communication strategies. I am also learning a lot about social health behavioral theories (we need to know how behavior works in order to plan intervention) and models in planning a health education program that takes into account different aspects of a community. All the courses I have taken in the last 2 months has given me so many new ideas that I’ve never thought of. In addition, it has given me skills that I know I would utilize in my path in research-ing, developing and implementing efficacious public health promotion, education services into different cul-tural settings in order to maximize health outcomes in a community. My new favorite topics are social market-ing* and persuasive communication. There was a very interesting social marketing campaign on family plan-ning in Egypt that greatly involved community phar-macies in engaging public health service that I would encourage those interested to read further: Egypt’s Mabrouk! Initiative, a Communication Strategy for Ma-ternal/Child Health and Family Planning Integration, by Ron Hess, Dominique Meekers and J. Douglas Sto-rey. As for persuasive communication, whether we are persuading our patients (or our families) in making the right choices towards a healthier lifestyle or persuading someone to give you an interview to your dream job, I encourage everyone to read this book: Influence, sci-ence & practice by Robert Cialdini. It’s a very interesting read with everyday examples on how to influence peo-ple, a skill health professionals ought to acquire.

What could you do to make a difference?

Sometimes I think I am only one person, but you know what, we can be the one to make a difference, wherever we are. Where could you start? It’s super sim-ple! Join in on your local pharmacy students associa-tions’ activities, whether it may be a public health cam-paign or perhaps a Patient Counseling Event (PCE), you are improving your program planning and persuasive communication skills. When you have done a success-ful public health campaign, share it with your national pharmacy students association and let your CP, share it in the form of an activity report with pharmacy stu-dents worldwide! It always amazes me of how much enthusiasm pharmacy students has around the world in conducting public health campaigns! Better yet, at-tend an IPSF Regional Symposium and the IPSF World Congress to share your experience LIVE with our global pharmacy student community. Take it from me, a per-son who has attended the World Congress for the past 6 years, since 2007! Every single congress is very interest-ing and very different in terms of the location, activities, things you learn and the wonderful people you meet who become your friends for life.

Join TODAY and CHANGE your perspective forever!!

Reference:

1. The Role of the Pharmacist in the Health Care System (WHO, 1994)

2. Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.merriam-webster.com)

* Definition of Social Marketing: The application of commercial marketing technologies to the analysis, planning, execution, and evaluation of programs de-signed to influence the voluntary behavior of target au-dience in order to improve their personal welfare and that of their society. (Glanz et al., 2008)

Jane Ho

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