Strengthening our patients' immune systems has never been more important, and healthy nutrition is one critical factor. This event focuses on how nutrition impacts immunity and its importance in supporting a strong and responsive immune system. It is the second event in the 2022 FIP series 'Food for thought: Pharmacists' role in healthy nutrition'.

Moderator:
Jaime Acosta, Community Pharmacist Farmacia Acosta- Spain

Panelists:
-Philip Calder, President, Federation of European Nutrition Societies Head of the School of Human Development and Health at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom
-Joanna Harnett, Senior Lecturer Sydney Pharmacy School, Australia
-Basma Abdulsamad, Clinical Pharmacist – MSc. Immunology and Allergy – Harvard Associate Alumni Medical Research Institute, Alexandria Egypt, Egypt

Vaccination is one of the most effective measures to prevent disease transmission and help people remain healthy and retain functional ability as they grow older. Adopting a life-course approach to vaccination and providing convenient and accessible vaccination pathways for older adults is essential to achieve high vaccination coverage rates in this particular population group. Pharmacists increasingly offer reliable information and vaccination services around the world. Among the different special-risk population groups, older adults have specific vaccination needs that will be discussed in this event.

By the end of the session participants should be able to:
1. Understand the most important vaccines for older adults
2. Recognise the role of pharmacists in promoting vaccination to the elderly
3. Discuss strategies for the promotion of a life-course approach to vaccination

Moderator:
- Lina Bader, Lead for Equity, sustainability policy and development International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Saudi Arabia

Panelists:
- Jean-Pierre MICHEL, Honorary Professor of Medicine University of Geneva, Switzerland
- David Sinclair, Chief Executive ILC. UK
- Jane Barratt, Secretary General International Federation on Ageing, Canada
- Ruggli Martine, President pharmaSuisse, Switzerland

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, according to the World Health Organization. Prevention and early screening are crucial elements of interprofessional strategies to reduce the burden, morbidity and mortality associated with cancer, as are medication management for optimal outcomes, and patient support. Pharmacists have a key role to play in all these areas. At this digital event, FIP will be publishing a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of cancer-related services. In addition, the handbook will be accompanied by the knowledge and skills (K&S) reference guide in cancer which identifies the K&S that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to pharmacists, academic institutions and CPD providers. Both publications will be launched at this event, and they are part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Attendees will learn about:

1. The role of pharmacists in the prevention, screening, care and management of cancer;
2. Challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in implementing cancer-related services;
3. The knowledge and skills pharmacists need to acquire to support their role in the delivery of cancer-related services.

Moderator:

-Inês Nunes da Cunha, FIP Practice Development and Transformation Projects Manager FIP, Portugal

Panelists:
-Evelyn Handel, ISOPP President (2022-2024) International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP), USA
-Folakemi T. Odedina, Professor of Oncology Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, USA
-Matthew Hung, Clinical Staff Pharmacist St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre, Canada
-Dalia Bajis, Lead for provision and partnerships FIP, Australia

This webinar is the second of the Precision Medicine Webinar Series, which will discuss the current state and future of precision medicine in research and practice, including the ongoing technological advances and challenges and opportunities for the pharmacy profession to address. This webinar will cover:
- Ongoing technological developments, including:
o Multi-omics
o Single-cell sequencing
o High-resolution imaging
o Combinatorial drug screens
o Biostatistics, machine learning and open software repositories
- Examples of clinical translation of the above technologies in a research context
- Thoughts on future directions of the field, and unaddressed gaps.

At the end of this session, participants will:
1. Have an awareness of some of the key technological advances driving the evolution of precision medicine.
2. Be familiar with some examples of its potential implementation
3. Be aware of current limitations and remaining challenges to be addressed


Co-Chairs:
-Donnacha Fitzgerald, FIP Technology Forum member, Predoctoral Fellow The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
-R. Stephanie Huang, Professor Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, USA

Panellists:
-Wolfgang Huber, Co-Director, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit Group Leader ad Senior Scientist The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
-Christoph Merten, Associate Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

In 2019, the FIP Advisory Committee for the Pharmacy Technician and Support Workforce Strategic Platform was established and took on the responsibility to host future Symposia. Since 2020, the Pharmacy Technicians’ Symposium has been hosted and delivered as a digital event to promote widespread access to this learning forum. The committee is once again pleased to host, on October 18th and 19th,, the 2022 Pharmacy Technicians’ Symposium. This digital event will offer 2 half day sessions showcasing global roles and practice models among the pharmacy technician workforce, built on a theme of resiliency and contribution by  working with other members of the pharmaceutical workforce toward recovery of the healthcare system. More here. 

In 2019, the FIP Advisory Committee for the Pharmacy Technician and Support Workforce Strategic Platform was established and took on the responsibility to host future Symposia. Since 2020, the Pharmacy Technicians’ Symposium has been hosted and delivered as a digital event to promote widespread access to this learning forum. The committee is once again pleased to host, on October 18th and 19th,, the 2022 Pharmacy Technicians’ Symposium. This digital event will offer 2 half day sessions showcasing global roles and practice models among the pharmacy technician workforce, built on a theme of resiliency and contribution by  working with other members of the pharmaceutical workforce toward recovery of the healthcare system. More here. 

Para abogar por una implementación más amplia y armonizada de bioexenciones basadas en el sistema de clasificación biofarmacéutica (BCS) en los países de América Latina, la FIP está apoyando a los líderes regionales en la sensibilización sobre esta vía reguladora basada en la ciencia diseñada para acelerar la aprobación del mercado de productos farmacéuticos genéricos seguros y eficaces. La segunda parte de esta serie de seminarios web diseñados específicamente para la región de América Latina destaca ejemplos de vías de aprobación regulatoria de bioexenciones basadas en BCS que se implementan actualmente en países seleccionados de América Latina. Los expertos abordarán la base legislativa de las regulaciones de bioexenciones y discutirán las oportunidades de armonización dentro de la región.

Este webinar tiene los objetivos:

• Diferenciar entre la bioequivalencia in vivo y las estrategias reguladoras de bioexención basadas en BCS para la aprobación de medicamentos genéricos.
• Comprender las implicaciones para la salud pública de la vía reguladora de la bioexención basada en BCS.
• Delinear oportunidades y desafíos para la implementación de un proceso armonizado de aprobación regulatoria de bioexenciones dentro de la región de América Latina.
• Delinear las contribuciones de solubilidad, permeabilidad y disolución para aplicaciones de bioexención basadas en BCS.

Moderadora:
- Talita Ferreira, Coordinadora de Proyectos de bioexención en Latinoamérica International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Brazil

Panelista:
- Andrés Figueroa Campos, Gerente SD Registro Sanitario de Productos Farmacéuticos Bioequivalentesy, ANAMED ISPch – Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria de Chile

The World Health Organization estimate that 17.9 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, representing 32% of all global deaths. Pharmacists have a role to play in the prevention, care and management of cardiovascular diseases and their complications. FIP has developed a new handbook to support pharmacists and their organisations in providing a range of cardiovascular diseases-related services. This handbook — which will be launched at this event — also identifies the knowledge and skills that pharmacists require for the provision of such services, thus offering guidance to academic institutions and CPD providers. This handbook is part of the FIP Practice Transformation Programme on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Learning objectives:

1. Explore the role of pharmacists in the prevention, care and management of cardiovascular diseases and their complications;
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in addressing cardiovascular diseases;
3. Identify the relevant knowledge and skills required for the delivery of cardiovascular diseases-related services.

Current and future pharmaceutical education. Enablers and barriers to innovation and high quality education.

Among the greatest bottlenecks for the widespread implementation of precision medicine is the growing costs of the associated technologies. It also brings new challenges for health technology assessment, with cost-utility becoming more difficult to evaluate and predict at finer levels of patient stratification. What are these challenges? How could we address them? How might we go about refining precision medicine strategies to maximize cost utility?

The webinar will cover:

- The current health technology assessment stance on precision medicine applications

- What we know and what we don’t know about the cost-utility of new precision medicine approaches against the standard of care

- How costs may evolve with emerging technologies or trends

- Priorities for future health economics research in this area

The first of December commemorates World AIDS day and this year FIP will join this campaign by launching a toolkit for pharmacists on HIV prevention, screening and management. It is now possible to effectively prevent the transmission of HIV through pharmacological strategies (preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis). New HIV tests have also become available, including point-of-care tests and self-tests. Pharmacists’ expertise and accessibility can be leveraged for a variety of important roles in the prevention and screening of HIV infections. Join this event to learn about these roles and be inspired by examples from different countries.

By the end of the session participants should be able to:

• Understand the roles pharmacists can play in HIV prevention, screening and management
• Recognise some resources and tools that pharmacists can use in this area
• Find and use the FIP toolkit on HIV prevention, screening and management

Current and future science. Enablers and barriers to innovation and collaboration across pharmaceutical science.