Women in Pharmacy: Leadership & Empowerment

The United Nations’ theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”. This year’s focus calls for action to unlock equal rights, opportunities, and power for all women, including in healthcare and pharmacy. Achieving this vision requires empowering women as leaders and catalysts for lasting change. FIP, under its EquityRx programme, is marking this important day with a digital event centred on Women in Pharmacy: Leadership & Empowerment. The event will feature women leaders from diverse regions who will share their experiences, challenges, and lessons in leadership. The discussion will highlight strategies to support and empower women to thrive in leadership roles within pharmacy and healthcare.

Moderator: - Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Co-moderator: - Nour Eltahla, FIP Equity and FIPWiSE Programme Manager, FIP, Netherlands

Panellists:

- Dalia Bajis, FIP Head of Programmes and Provision, FIP, Netherlands

- Mariam El Boakye-Gyasi, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Academic Capacity Lead FIP-UNESCO-UNITWIN Centre for Excellence in Africa, Ghana

- Andreia Bruno-Tomé, Director Research, Policy and Partnerships , Australian Pharmacy Council, Australia

- Dalal Hammoudi, Common Year Coordinator – QU Health Assessment and Accreditation Office – QU Health Sector, Qatar University, Qatar

- Lucinda Maine, CEO Emerita, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, United States of America