This year, IPSF was characteristic with the

huge efforts to make the work of IPSF

more efficient and visible to all our

members as well as external partners. As I have

stated during my candidacy, IPSF needs more

visibility and transparency pertaining to its work.

This would bring better feedback and open

platform, that student all around the world would

identify them with. Thus students will search and

appreciate benefits that IPSF offers. Not only

students will see IPSF in the right light, but also

all other partners, and with support of both of

them, IPSF would grow up significantly. With this

vision in my head, I have run for the presidency

position. I persuaded to do the best I can to aim

the road of federation this way.

Of course, none of this could have been

achieved without the right people in the right

place. I can say, that this year this was the case

and the people in the Executive as well as wider

IPSF team was very much dedicated to their work

and what´s more, for the team. The team in the

end was very consistent and we could rely on

each other. This year the Executive team was not

complete from the very beginning. According to

our vision and strategy to increase transparency

of the IPSF work, we have established very

transparent appointing system. However with the

big transparency, we had suffered by the big

slowness of the process. In the end, the result

was, that Executive team was missing one

person until the beginning of November.

The big boost of consistent team work was

establishing the regular online meetings, which

helped us all to better understand certain issues,

make our work more efficient as well as clarify

any misunderstandings, which could harm

relations within the team. Also communication

over the emailing group was very efficient and

with the help of Ms. Melissa Teo, IPSF Vice-

President, the moderating of the discussion was

kept on place.

The main role of IPSF President, besides leading

a team towards the vision, is to be the face and

the voice of the federation. This means, that this

year was filled by representing IPSF on many

Conferences and General Assemblies of our

members and holding online meetings internally

and also with external partners. As I have limited

space here, I shall mention only the most

important partners and events where IPSF was

active this year.

The main partner of IPSF is the International

Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). IPSF always

tries to maintain the relationship on high level and

this year this practise was followed as well. IPSF

has taken active role during FIP main event of

this term, which was 70th International Congress

of FIP held in September in Lisbon, Portugal.

IPSF run several sessions as well as held

meetings with important partners from all different

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Boards of FIP.

The FIP Congress was very valuable experience,

especially for the part of the new Executive team

which was present, because all of us learned

everything about FIP and gave us opportunity to

develop IPSF/FIP relationships further on. IPSF

President also has the privilege to be present on

FIP Boards Business meetings and give the

report as follow up on the IPSF activities, which

helps us to keep awareness about IPSF

throughout FIP people and could lead to some

valuable join projects. This was the situation this

year and I am happy to say, that we have

developed or joined few new projects with FIP. I

hope this practise will continue in the future as

well and IPSF will prove itself as valuable partner

and a future of FIP.

One of the most important events, where the

IPSF was represented by me, was UNESCO

meeting in October in Paris, France. The main

topic was “Culture and development: the role

of culture for sustainable development and

economic prosperity” and “UNESCO’s

relationship with NGOs: from theory to

practice, development of a strategy to

enhance the practical cooperation“. IPSF took

active role there and proved that UNESCO is an

important partner. However, there is bigger

potential to bond with this important partner more

and particularly this relationship has to be

maintained better.

Another significant event, where IPSF spread out

awareness of Pharmaceutical students work and

where got valuable contacts was World Health

Summit held also in the October in Berlin,

Germany. This is a platform where the leaders

from Governments, Science, Industry, NGOs and

all other health care fields meets and has the

opportunity to discuss current issues about

Healthcare and connected topics.

Also, relationship with the World Health

Organisation (WHO) was improved by presence

at their Executive Board Meeting in January as

well as the WHO World Health Assembly

(WHA) in May, both held in Geneva, Switzerland.

This year, thanks to the hard work of IPSF

Chairperson of Public Health, Ms Sharon Leung,

IPSF has secured extra internship places for

students at WHO Headquarters. Together with

Sharon, we have also decided to open the

attendance at WHA to member students and

brought delegation of ten students to the UN

Headquarters in Geneva. I hope this practise will

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continue in the following years as we continue to

receive positive feedback from our students.

During my term, I also tried to represent IPSF in

multiple Members Conferences, Annual

Congresses and General Assemblies. This

practise helped to spread out the name of IPSF

among our member students and gave us the

opportunity to receive individual feedback as well

as receive valuable feedback what the student´s

desire from IPSF. This is a potential area for the

students to explore more and learn about

international platform more which could attract

them to be active internationally.

Besides our members and professional partners,

IPSF was working to strengthen our relationship

with all our strategic students´ partner

organisations, especially with the most important

one which is the European Pharmaceutical

Students´ Association (EPSA, the Association

representing pharmaceutical students on

European level). IPSF and EPSA Executive

teams were working hard on revision of the main

document, EPSA-IPSF Memorandum of

Understanding, which sums up basic rules and

criteria of our cooperation and provides precious

follow-up document to ensure continuity in our

mutual work for the future.

Other big achievement this year in regards to

cooperation with the Students organisation is

research project together with the European

Law Students´ Association (ELSA), supervised

by FIP. This project leaded to signed document

of cooperation, ELSA-IPSF Memorandum of

Understanding and is the same significance as

the previous mentioned one.

Besides these two significant documents

underlining very close cooperation with our

partner student organisations, we have also

been active member of IFISO this year. Please

find details in the article of the IPSF Chairperson

of External Relations, Ms Jane Ho. A decision to

delegate representative status on IFISO platform

to this new IPSF portfolio proved as the right one

and significantly raised IPSF activity there. The

same practise was used to the representation to

Joint Working Group (JWG). JWG was suffering

with the lack of interest from member

associations to host World Healthcare Students

Symposium (WHSS) due to insufficient

communication, but IPSF took appropriate

initiatives and succeeded to find it´s member

organisation to be WHSS host organisation.

Everyone is now looking forward to the next,

surely very successful WHSS in November 2011

in beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. I

would like to thank the students from Czech

Pharmaceutical Students Association and JWG

for their initiative and effort.

The second task for my term this year, as I have

stated before, was to stabilise IPSF finances in

the terms of securing some extra funds in order

to be able to improve IPSF work and efficiency.

We have initiated a lot of discussions this year

about strategies and limitations for getting some

funds. We have begun implementation of some

great ideas. Following this, IPSF Partnership

Prospectus was created. This document would

help our successors to reach sponsors and

hopefully attract some attention to values of

partnership with IPSF. Besides creating these

strategies and tools, people from Executive with

the help of Marketing coordinator, Mr Bálint Toth,

have been visiting several Exhibition and

Pharmaceutical Fairs in order to gain some

contacts for partnership purposes. We have

collected a lot of contacts, of whom some have

already been contacted. But the response rate is

not that we have been expecting. Coming from

this, my opinion is that we should reconsider our

approaching strategy. Based on this, I believe,

there is room for improvement. I believe in

brighter financial future of the Federation.

Related to the finances, IPSF has suffered this

year with not having stable Permanent Officer

(PO). Executive committee had investigated the

reasons of this situation and initiated fruitful

discussion on how to prevent such a situation in

the future. The biggest improvement we have

achieved this year for the people working in the

future in IPSF secretariat was that ISPF has

changed it´s flat after almost ten years. The living

standard was raised up significantly, so one more

motivation for the PO to stay in the office and feel

comfortable. Another motivation for this year

Executive Committee to move to the better flat

was negotiation with FIP about FIP internships

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and logistics from IPSF’s side.

Along all of these issues which I have tried to

highlight here, there was a continuous process

of IPSF World Congress preparations along with

the Reception Committee (RC). The entire

congress preparation was moving smoothly with

minor hiccups and very soon, the RCs proved

that they are very much reliable and hardworking.

Our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all

members of the RC for their huge dedication and

effort that paved the way for a successful IPSF

Congress 2011. Thank you!

I trust that we have prepared the Federation for

rolling further in effective way. I can say that we

did our best to move the Federation forward. It

was very difficult task but I´m sure, that we have

moved forward at least with the baby steps and

got some experience, so the Federation is

prepared for the run now. There are a lot still to

improve, but I hope we have made some

preparations, so the improvement process could

be sustained.

At last, but not least, I would like to share with all

of you my personal appreciation and big thanks

to all people with whom I was honored to work

with this year. You made an unforgettable and the

best year of my life. Special thanks come to all

my beloved fellows from Executive. I have to

thank all of you for your never-ending support

and all great moments we have experienced

together. You have truly become my lifelong

friends!

Jan Röder

IPSF President 2010-11

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My name is Tomáš Valena. I´m 25 years

old and coming from a small country

from central Europe called Slovakia - this

year also known as Hockey republic. My

involvement in IPSF started in year 2007, when

I enjoyed IPSF Student Exchange Programme in

Serbia. Amazed by this project, I became active

member of SPSA where I was responsible for

foreign affairs. And that was my start with

federation! Few years passed and in year 2010-

11 I was serving as IPSF treasurer.

“Hard job in hard times, if we look at it globally” .

Divided in smaller parts it looks little bit different.

My biggest goal for this year was stabilizing IPSF

finances. Last few years condition of IPSF

finances is not so well. On the side of income we

are struggling with receiving all membership fees

and low sponsorship and grants income. On the

side of outcome we had a very expensive but

successful humanitarian project in the year 2009-

10. This year IPSF invested in a new SEP

database as well as a new IPSF website. Short

analysis shows us that our income is still lower

than our operating expenses. IPSF needs to

increase budget or dramatically cut our

expenditures. Our aim was option A – increasing

income. For that IPSF exec team created IPSF

partnership prospects. In this booklet we are

looking for IPSF partners. We are encouraging

you to get familiar with this booklet and discuss

our mutual prospects.

Positive message for IPSF training was receiving

UNESCO participation grant for IPSF Leaders in

Training programme in year 2010-11. This project

helps to train future pharmacy leaders and

sustain stability in executive of our national/local

members and international executive positions as

well. More information about this project is in

report of chairperson of professional

development.

IPSF Development Fund project helps to give

equal opportunities to all pharmacy students all

over the world to participate in IPSF activities. For

this reason IPSF arranges auction night at all

congresses and regional meetings, where

students bring auction items from their home

countries. Collected funds are distributed by

Development Fund Coordinator and

Development Funds sub-committee to applicants

for this grant. If you wish to donate funds for

development fund, IPSF is really happy to

receive it and help students in need.

To increase IPSF awareness and IPSF identity

we create new IPSF merchandise. This year we

started with ties and scarfs. As addiction to this

we are offering also IPSF polo shirts. I´m loving

it.

Changes for year 2011-12. For upcoming year

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we prepared few changes. One change is that

IPSF after 10 years moved to another flat. For

few months federation become homeless, but for

better cause. Our new flat can serve not only

IPSF but also FIP intern and by that we can

decrease cost of our rent.

Another change is to give bigger support to our

regional offices. It means more funds from IPSF

Office and on the other hand opportunity to gain

funds from region to their own region. We believe

that strengthening regional offices will eventually

help in strengthening our international goals.

I would like to thank all members of IPSF

executive, coordinators, members of committees

and sub-committees, pharmacy students, the

Reception Committee and members of the FIP

for their dedication to federation and for great

help also on personal level. Doing this great job

when I was full time working in pharmacy field

was really hard and by the year I was struggling

with lack of time and that lead into lack on energy

for federation. I believe my successor will have

great start for year 2011-12 and will fulfill this

position better.

Viva la pharmacie and see you at IPSF

congresses or somewhere else !!!

Tomáš Valena

IPSF Treasurer 2010-11

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The end of the 57th IPSF Executive’s

mandate is drawing close, and as

Secretary General, I am happy to look back

on what I think has been a very productive year

for IPSF.

In the Constitutional Working Party many issues

have been discussed this year; ranging from

language barriers to handover responsibilities.

The result can be found at the CWP proposal of

changes to the Official Documents. Among other

things, the Constitutional Working Party have

worked on the mandate from the 56th General

Assembly to propose an advisory board for IPSF,

which has resulted in a proposal for a new Article

4 in the Domestic Rules. It was proposed by the

CWP members to have a personal meeting,

much like the one conducted by the Student

Exchange Committee, which resulted in a 2-day

meeting in Lisbon on April 9th-10th. I found this

to be a very good opportunity to have fruitful

discussions and at the same time to have a nice

time together. I will certainly repeat this meeting

with the CWP of 2011-12, and I hope that in time

it will become an enjoyable tradition.

Unfortunately, due to work and school

commitments of its members, the Executive had

no Permanent Officer staying at the headquarters

this term. I have been attending to the secretariat

in The Hague whenever my academic

responsibilities allowed me to, visiting the office

in October, December, March, May and July,

each stay lasting between five days and three

weeks. To better the conditions for Permanent

Officer and interns we decided to look for a new

flat with more modern facilities and a more

convenient location. After some investigation of

the rental market, the Executive decided to rent

a bright and spacious 3-bedroom flat on

Hondiusstraat, which is found to be suitable for

both interns and Permanent Officer. In this

connection, I would like to send a big thank you

to the K.N.P.S.V. students that helped us in

moving out of the old flat and into the new one. I

am confident that this change is for the better and

that this flat will serve as a good base for IPSF

officers and interns in the years to come.

During the year, two Executive meetings have

been held in the headquarters in The Hague, the

Netherlands. The first Executive meeting was

held in the first week of December 2010, and the

decisions made at this meeting mapped our work

for the following months. The meeting was also

very enjoyable socially, despite reoccurring

problems with the heating system in our flat in

combination with lots of snow and freezing

temperatures outside! The second meeting was

held in March 2011, and was even more fruitful

than the first meeting, since at this meeting, more

Executive members were able to go to the

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Netherlands. The third Executive meeting will be

held in Hat Yai, Thailand, prior to the Congress.

In between these meetings, the Executive have

been utilizing teleconference software for online

meetings in the Executive and meetings with

different IPSF Reception Committees, having

held approximately two online meetings per

month.

To this Executive it has been very important to

be as transparent towards our members as

possible. As a result we have tried our best to

send out as much information on our work as

possible and to involve our Contact Persons in

making decisions whenever suitable. Many calls

and documents have been sent out through our

egroups. The minutes of the 56th General

Assembly was sent out as per the new deadline,

with this and other documents I have tried my

best to keep the set deadlines and in general

distributing information as soon as possible.

A proper handover of information is vital for the

internal strength of any organization, which is

why our Executive is now focusing on ensuring

the optimal handover. As I write this, every

member of the Executive is writing their portfolio

guidelines, as per the mandate of the 56th

General Assembly, a guideline which will provide

a detailed overview of the duties and

responsibilities of each Executive position, as

well as a general overview of the workings and

procedures of IPSF. In addition to these

guidelines the Executive is working on creating

specific instruction files on different subjects

related to internal and external communication.

As Secretary General, I am responsible for

keeping the IPSF archives up-to-date and his

year I have been giving the electronic archive a

thorough update, so that new Executive

members will have easier access to important

information. For the same purpose, all positions

in IPSF now have official @ipsf.org emails and a

corresponding storage account in order to save

information and to make sure that our

correspondence is passed on to our successors.

These days, the members of the Executive are

busy with our preparations the 57th IPSF World

Congress, which we are all very excited about.

During the year, we have been in regular contact

with the Reception Committee via monthly

teleconferences, and I believe that the Congress

in Thailand will be an amazing experience and a

great success.

Approaching the end of this article, I would like

to thank all IPSFers for making this a special

year for me and the rest of the Executive, and a

special thank you from me to the members of the

Constitutional Working Party 2010-11, Ana Rita

Tiago, Ilse Bollen and Milanka Marunic for their

hard work, as well as to the older CWP

members, Mary Poon, Pedro Lucas and Balint

Tóth, for their insight and keen advice.

Vive la Pharmacie!

Yours in IPSF,

Lærke Arnfast

IPSF Secretary 2010-12

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Hearty Greetings! My name is Dimple Modi and

my tryst with IPSF began almost six years ago

when I started Pharmacy School in India as a

volunteer in student organizations. My

involvement in IPSF truly began in 2007 as the

Contact Person for India and the culmination of

my experiences through various student

organizations and the Asia Pacific

Pharmaceutical Symposia and the Leader’s-In-

Training Programs along with other

sub-committees in IPSF was an enthusiasm to

and vision to contribute back to the profession. I

have had the good fortune of serving as the

Chairperson of Pharmacy Education for IPSF for

the year 2010 - 2011 and thus getting a chance

to give back a bit of what I have received.

Like in any field, education is of prime importance

in the evolution of Pharmacy as a profession. I

truly believe that what and how we learn is what

we will determine how we evolve as future

pharmacists. With similar views, this year the

IPSF Educational Section has conducted a

variety of educational activities aimed at fostering

learning through sharing.

Educational Symposia: Along with the regional

symposia, the IPSF World Congress in Thailand

in August, 2011 will have an entire day dedicated

for the educational symposium on the theme

“Mapping A New Vision: Translating Ideas into

Practice”. Through the symposia we will not only

hear stalwarts but for the first time, we will also

have brief presentations from official delegates

about the changing scenarios on pharmacy in

their region or country. These series of

presentations will provide an excellent glimpse of

the current and the future global scenarios and

the necessary steps to be better prepared for

these. In addition, we will also be organizing the

IPSF session on the same theme along with

some other joint sessions on different themes at

the 71st FIP World Congress in India in

September, 2011. The speakers this year include

stalwarts like Prof. Jennifer Marriot, Prof. Ian

Bates, Dr. B. Suresh, Dr. Geoff Tucker, Dr. Henri

Manasse, and Dr. Jacqueline Surugue.

Original Research: IPSF conducts original

research through collaborations with the faculty

and students of the FIP Collaborating Center and

the School of Pharmacy, University of London

titled the Moving On (MO) projects. This year we

continued the data collection for MO II project

with a new wave of data collection through

internet survey across all member countries.

Along with cross-sectional analyses, this new

data will also help us to compare the results

longitudinally. This was executed along with

Francisco (current MO II coordinator) and

Andreia (Project Coordinator & Researcher, FIP

PET). The MO II project focuses on find the

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students’ perceptions on pharmacy curriculum. At

the IPSF Annual Congress, we intend to release

the preliminary results along with having expert

comments from Dr. Jennifer Marriot (Chair of FIP

Academic section) as to what these country wise

comparisons mean and how we can move

forward with this. We also plan to brainstorm the

operationalization of some ideas for the future

MO IV project. At the symposium, attendees will

also be able to learn more about the FIP-PET

projects along with IPSF’s own Moving On

Projects and ways to get further involved in

these.

Educational Monthly Update: We introduced a

monthly update on the recent happenings in the

field of pharmacy education. These updates are

a compilation from WHO, UNESCO and GHWA

news bulletins. We try to summarize the broad

range of news and present them to our members

in a neat descriptive way which would stimulate

thoughts and encourage professional system

sharing amongst all the members.

Peer Learning: This year we conducted the

second IPSF Essay writing competition. The

topics were (1) Pharmacy in My Generation's

Perspective (2) How my education has prepared

me/helped me to become a pharmacist? and (3)

How does pharmacy save lives in my country?

We received 30 entries from 17 countries. The

winning entry will be published in the Pharmacy

Education Journal (PEJ). In addition our annual

publication, Phuture will be based on the theme

“Mapping A New Vision: Translating Ideas into

Practice”. It will be coordinated by Lena

Kojukarov. This aims to cover the broad areas

affecting our education and their impact on

Pharmacy profession. Along with having invited

articles from students and stalwarts, the

magazine will also publish some classic essay

entries. Being a green magazine, it will be

extensively circulated as an e-copy and available

for free download from the IPSF website.

Overall, this has been an exciting year for me

both personally and professionally. The initiatives

and their success have largely been due to the

enthusiasm and hard work of the CPs, student

leaders and all dear IPSFers. My whole hearted

thanks to everyone for their efforts. And of

course, a big thanks to my fellow exec-members,

education team, my family and God Almighty for

all the much-needed support and encouragement

through this year.

Viva La Pharmacie!!!!!!! Let’s keep the spirits

rolling.

Regards,

Dimple Modi

Chairperson of Pharmacy Education 2010-11

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My name is Eric So, from Canada, and it

has been a very humbling opportunity

and a honour to be the Chairperson of

Professional Development for 2010-2011. This

year would be my 4th year that I have been

involved with IPSF. Thinking back to my 1st

congress in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2008, I was

enthralled with the IPSF spirit. Soon afterward, I

became the Patient Counselling Event (PCE)

Coordinator, then Clinical Skills Event (CSE)

Coordinator, and now as the Chairperson. The

journey so far has been a fun-filled ride.

I write with great excitement with what has

happened in the professional development

section of IPSF. As you may know, professional

development is composed of 4 sections: Leaders

in Training (LIT), PCE, CSE, and Pharmacy

Profession Awareness Campaign (PPAC).

LIT in Africa

IPSF in BEST Trainer’s Forum,

Vienna, Austria 2011

LIT is a program devoted in empowering and

training students with skills for their lives and

career. This year, I had the great pleasure to be

IPSF’s representative in BEST Trainer Forum, a

sharing group for trainers of different student

organizations of Europe. Through this

networking and sharing event, there were many

exchanges in idea and material that help to

expand IPSF’s own training material. From this

fresh injection of resources, IPSF was able to

update and expand its material for our own LIT

for this year. While speaking of LIT, this year, the

number of applicants and participants for our LIT

for world congress and our regional symposium

has broken our past records. This is also the first

year that LIT will be held in Africa, right before the

African Pharmaceutical Symposium in Nairobi,

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Kenya. As of press time, the LIT teams of each

region are hard at work to make LIT a success.

There are also a lot of ‘firsts’ with PCE and CSE

for this year. The revision to joint FIP

(International Pharmaceutical Federation)-IPSF

patient counselling booklet is set to be released

by world congress. IPSF has also written an

actor guideline to help train actors for PCE and

CSE event, which is also set to be official

released by world congress. In terms of the

event itself, PCE has undergone a structural

changed to reflect on past feedbacks; Cases will

be given out 24 hour in advance instead of 15

minutes. For CSE, there will now be 2

competitions: an individual competition, and a

‘Team Olympic’. In the individual event, each

participant will be required to analysis and solve

several clinical cases. In the ‘Team Olympic’

format, each group will be given a detailed case

in advance, they will be required to solve and

provide therapeutic alternatives for the patient in

the case. We hope to see you there for these fun

events!

Lastly with PPAC, we are continuing to promote

pharmacy practice through our different

campaigns, and during this congress, we will be

hosting a workshop about PPAC. The PPAC

coordinator, Radoslaw Mitura, is working hard in

creating a PPAC kit to better aid association in

running their own pharmacy awareness

campaign. You will hear more during the PPAC

workshop.

In conclusion, there have been many new

develops in Professional Development and I

hope you are not only interested in the news but

to get involve as well. I will see you at LIT, PCE,

and CSE event for both Asia-Pacific

Pharmaceutical Symposium in Indonesia as well

as IPSF World Congress in Thailand.

Vive la Pharmacie!

Eric H. L. So

Chairperson of Professional Development 2010-11

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“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of

choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a

thing to be achieved.”- William Bryan

Istarted this position with the mindset that

change is a matter of choice and these

choices are what ultimately achieves positive

changes in our local, national and global village.

This year has definitely been a fruitful year full of

memorable experiences and wonderful company.

First and foremost, none of the public health

accomplishments this year could have been

achieved without the help of the fellow execs and

public health coordinators. This wonderful team

has made all the difference in the world.

We started off the IPSF public health year with a

very robust set of goals and objectives. Our

general goal for this year includes continuing to

encourage and help our member countries in

running and reporting public health activities.

In order to achieve this goal, we have a number

action plans in place for the year.

To start off, one of the goals of this year is to

formulate a campaign kit for each of the

campaigns specified in the current portfolio. The

campaign kits included a composite of

presentations, facts cards, posters, pamphlets,

step-by-step campaign booklet, sample

campaign, video clips, etc. Thus far, 5 of 6

campaign kits have been launched with the help

of our amazing coordinators. The feedbacks on

the kits have been phenomenal.

In addition to these campaign kits, we also

worked to publish a pre and post campaign

newsletter for each of the public health topic.

Over the course of the year, we have published

a total of 9 newsletters and it is only a matter of

time before we end the fiscal year with our 3

remaining newsletters.

Continuing with an initiative that was started in

2008, we have started on the initial framework of

the public health database for each of the

campaigns. The database would be a place

where members can find all the health topics

IPSF is promoting, materials to use for

campaigns, regular updates on the acute/chronic

disease state, ongoing initiatives/projects and all

the report send by contact persons (CPs) from

previous years. The goal is to have an official

launch for all the databases at the upcoming

IPSF congress.

Following up from the survey result distributed to

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the CPs last year, our public health

subcommittee has embarked upon a proposal of

a new public campaign. Under the leadership of

Amit Subedi, our new Medicine Awareness

Campaign working group hopes to bring forth

this new campaign proposal at the upcoming

general assembly (GA).

For the humanitarian portfolio, our plans have not

only included the investigation into the potential

of re-initiating the mobile pharmacy project, but

we have also launched two new campaigns, both

of which have been well received so far. The two

mini-humanitarian projects are the Vampire Cup

Competition and the Books for Africa project. We

expect to see great things come out of these two

new sustainability projects.

Beyond the existing campaign plans, expansion

upon the existing number of IPSF internships is

also one of the goals for the year. We have

successfully increased our internship call from 2

per year to 7 per year. There are also some

pending internship proposals in the works, which

will increase the number of international

opportunities for our members.

In terms of grants and funding, we have

collaborated with FIP this year to provide funding

for organization interested in starting and

expanding on TB initiatives. Grant and funding

for public health initiatives is a new arena that

IPSF plans to expand on in the future years.

Public health advocacy is also a new arena that

is the in midst of ongoing investigation. The

Vienna Declaration and the World Cancer

Declaration are among the number of public

health advocacy projects being expanded upon.

For the upcoming congress, we will also be

presenting a white paper on Rationale Drug Use,

which will be presented to FIP for presentation to

external stakeholders.

Throughout this year, we tried to increase the

transparency of our work to our members and

external stakeholders. The idea is to provide

regular updates to our members and be available

for regular feedback. Besides our public health

newsletters and our biannual coordinator

updates, we have also provided weekly digest on

our public health activity via our e-groups. Along

with these new intiatives, we have also posted

number of interesting thread topics. It was great

to see such enthusiastic discussion on the public

health subcommittee.

Last but not least is our much anticipated public

health workshops and LIVE campaign at the

upcoming congress. Preparations are well

underway since the ladder end of last year. Our

theme for the LIVE campaign this year is

Tobacco Awareness. During the LIVE campaign

this year, we hope to provide real public health

campaigning experiences to our members by

bring an interactive component through a

tobacco awareness fair, smoking cessation

pledge and a on the street march. This will surely

be an event that you should not miss out on, so

see you all in Thailand!

So far, I’ve tried my best to balance my work life

with IPSF work. I am sure that I have merely

scratched the surface of IPSF’s public health

potential.

A huge thank you goes to my beloved executive

committee and public health sub-committee, who

have been such great support so far.

Another huge thank you goes to my

coordinators: Fedaa Malmoud, Dwi Ruth

Kurniasih, Johanna Walz, Jasmit Singh,

Christine Cooper, Hager Benmosbah and Roohil

Yusuf. I am happy and honoured to work with

each of you! I hope they will have time to

continue their activity in the IPSF public health

field.

“Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives

extraordinary.”

- Dead Poet’s Society

Sharon Leung

Chairperson of Public Health 2010-11

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My name is Jane Ai-Chen Ho from Taiwan

and I am the Chairperson of External

Relations 2010-2011. I have been

involved in IPSF since 2007 where the IPSF

World Congress was held in Taipei, Taiwan and I

was heavily involved in the Reception Committee

(RC). In 2008, I became involved and

represented for my national association,

Pharmaceutical Students’ Association of Taiwan

(PSA-Taiwan) and ran for election and became

the Regional Relations Officer (RRO) of the

Regional Working Group (RWG) of the Asia

Pacific Regional Office (APRO) of IPSF. In 2009

IPSF congress in Bali, Indonesia, I was

successfully elected as the last Chairperson of

Public Relations 2009-2010 and in 2010

congress in Slovenia, I ran for re-election for the

same position which was separated into 2

positions and I became the first Chairperson of

External Relations.

The portfolio of the Chairperson of External

Relations is a brand new position that is the result

of a motion passed in the 2010 IPSF General

Assembly (GA) in Slovenia which split the

position of the Chairperson of Public Relations

into the Chairperson of External Relations and

the Chairperson of Internal Relations. The

intention of the separation of position is for IPSF

to be more focused on supporting its own

members, as well as making more contacts with

external organizations and exploring new

opportunities for the Federation.

The External Relations Portfolio consist mainly of

3 parts:

1. Non Member Contacts & Promotion

a. Pharmacy Students Associations

worldwide

During my term, I have been in contact with

pharmacy student associations from the below

countries that are either non members, lost

members or members that would like to apply for

Full Membership (FM) in IPSF:

Asia Pacific Region: New Zealand, Vietnam,

Philippines, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

African Region: Zimbabwe, Sierra Leon, Nigeria,

Cameroon and Uganda.

European Region: Israel, Macedonia, Bulgaria,

Russia and Belgium.

Pan American Region: Colombia, Chile, Peru and

Brazil.

Eastern Mediterranean Region: Iraq and

Pakistan.

Dear IPSFers,

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There are currently 2 associations applying for

Full Member (FM) and 11 associations applying

for Member in Association, should they all

complete the procedure for member application

and the General Assembly (GA) accept all of

their application, we will be welcoming a total of

13 new members in IPSF on August 4th 2011 in

the 57th IPSF World Congress in Hat Yai,

Thailand.

b. Individual Membership (IM)

IMs are for pharmacy students in a country

where there is no association that is a member

of IPSF, as well as for graduates up to 4 years

from their first degree in pharmacy. There has

been an increasing amount of applicants for IMs

compared to last year due to the opening of the

IPSF fan page on the social media site:

Facebook.

2. Contacts & Collaborations with

External student organizations

a. World Health Students’ Symposium

(WHSS) Joint Working Group (JWG)

WHSS JWG consists of 2 Representatives from

each of the 4 partner student organizations:

IFMSA (International Federation of Medical

Students’ Associations), IPSF, EPSA (European

Pharmaceutical Students’ Associations) and

EMSA (European Medical Students’

Association). The idea is to bring medicine,

pharmacy and allied health students together in

an international forum to generate discussion

and understanding between the professions, to

develop skills and awareness of concepts in

multidisciplinary working, and to be advocates for

a cooperative multidisciplinary approach to

patient centred care to optimise health

outcomes. The JWG have been working in

partnership not only to organise a WHSS every

2 years but also to investigate ongoing joint

initiatives that support the overall vision for the

future. Myself and Mr. Murthy Chittoory are the 2

IPSF Representatives on the WHSS JWG

working together with other organizations’

representatives to uphold the vision and to

organize the 2011 WHSS in Prague, Czech

Republic.

b. Informal Forum of International Student

Organisations (IFISO)

IFISO is an informal forum for international

officers of pluralistic, "non-political" and not-for-

profit international (worldwide, European, etc.)

student-run organizations. Currently the IFISO

network consists of a multi-disciplinary mix of 27

such NGOs, covering more than 2 million

students all together. The great advantage of

participating in IFISO is for experience sharing

and networking. IPSF has sent representatives

to participate in the past few IFISO meetings so

as to contribute, as well as to retrieve useful

information beneficial for the Federation.

Information that would be of interest to IPSF

members are forwarded from the IFISO egroups

to the IPSF egroups when necessary.

3. Sponsorship Possibilities

This is the first year where IPSF is actively

working towards in gathering information on

potential sponsors, establishing a sponsorship

package and networking with potential sponsors.

Active representations were done by several

members of the IPSF Executive and the

sponsorship coordinator in trade exhibitions such

as Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and

Technologies Conference and Exhibition

(DUPHAT), CPhI Worldwide and EXPOPHARM,

Europe's largest pharmaceutical trade fair. A

foundation has been set this year and we are

hopeful that the seeds sown will blossom in time.

It has been simply a roller coaster ride during my

4 years of involvement in IPSF and I have never

stopped being amazed by all the interesting

people I meet from different parts of the world

with the same objective: raising awareness for

the pharmacy profession through activities and

the meaningful work that I know that are done by

pharmacy students worldwide - these are the

things that has kept me motivated over the years.

The passion that I have found through IPSF in

advocating for pharmacy and public health shall

keep me going wherever I go.

Make a difference where you are! Vive la

Pharmacie!

Jane Ai-Chen Ho

Chairperson of External Relations 2010-11

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My name is Vladimir Obradović and I am

from Serbia. I was actively involved in

IPSF since 2008., when I started firstly in

NAPSer (National Association of Pharmacy

Students – Serbia).

An invitation to join IPSF Constitutional Working

Party (CWP) came from Mr. Pedro Lukas, IPSF

Secretary General 2009. – 2010. I was very

happy when the invitation arrived, and I accepted

it. CWP is giving opportunity to be familiar with

the most important rules of IPSF, to revise IPSF

Official Documents and also to give your input

regarding any improvement of IPSF.

Discussion of establishing new position in

Executive Committee was very fruitful, and

splitting Public Relations portfolio to Internal and

External Relations came up as the best solution.

General Assembly held in Ljubljana, Slovenia

accepted new Executive position. It was great

challenge to start working and shaping new

portfolio, extremely important for all IPSF

members.

I had a lot of plans to make interesting threads,

topics and to try to increase activity of each

Contact Person and each member of Regional

Working Group. Most of plans were very good

evaluated by our members. It is my honour to be

the first ever IPSF Chairperson of Internal

Relations.

Making the first steps of new position was not too

easy, but my fellow Executives were my best

support and I was feeling very confortable while

working in great team started.

Officially, under the portfolio of Chairperson of

Internal Relations, there is not any Working

Committee, but practically, my working

committee was consisted of all CPs worldwide.

I tried to make friendly atmosphere on e-groups

and to make every single mail on those groups

interesting and motivational for further

conversation.

CP quiz was one of my initiations, where I wanted

to make funny thread, but with very important

topics, relevant for current situation, projects,

news in IPSF. There were so many responses

and so many different opinions regarding the

same topic.

Number of activity reports was increased this

year. This is great step for each CP. Reporting is

a very important part of every campaign, almost

the same as preparation and organizing of the

Dear friends,

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campaign. All written documents are valuable

and can be used for future work and for future

generations.

In collaboration with other Executive Members,

plenty of newsletters, posters, promotional

materials and different publications were

published, released to the e-groups and

delivered to the every single student and young

pharmacist worldwide.

Different associations elect their Executive

Committees at different times of the year. One of

the most important responsibilities of my portfolio

is to update the IPSF Master List with the newest

contact information of every association. A lot of

many CP Update Forms were sent to my e-mail;

all of them are incorporated into one document

and shared with other Executive Members using

the newest methods of sharing information and

collecting details.

Members of Regional Working Groups were of a

huge support to my work. We worked together to

maintain the great work, to communicate

continuously, to solve different problems for each

region and to support each other with the aim to

find best solution on how to improve our work

and find the most effective way of running the

Regional Working Groups.

The first ever CP Skype meeting gathered more

than 30 CPs. Sharing opinions and ideas from

various regions via an electronic format was a

perfect platform to initiate regular IPSF CP

meetings. Through this first online meeting, we

made a lot of conclusions and decision. I am sure

that all CPs are aware about the importance of

IPSF through the presentation of the meeting

outcomes. It was indeed a great pleasure to chair

the online meeting with the attendance of all

these lovely people.

Throughout the year in the Executive Committee,

I collected all important information for each CP

and collated it in the CP Hand Book with clearly

set out guidelines which will be beneficial for both

experienced and new CPs alike. There you can

find so many different instructions and steps on

how to make your CP term as easiest as

possible.

It was a really busy year for me in the Executive

team, but I have to mention that I had a

memorable First and Second Executive Meeting

in Den Haag, The Netherlands. At these

meetings, we had a lot of teleconferences with

our member associations, a lot of Skype

meetings with other Executives and Congress

Reception Committees. Those live conferences

and meetings are a great experience and a

perfect opportunity for team building.

I would like to use opportunity and to thank Pedro

Lucas, IPSF Secretary General 2009-2010, as

he encouraged me to get involved more in IPSF

and to reach the top – to be Executive. I would

like to express thanks to Marko Niketić, Nataša

Nikolić and members of all NAPSer Executive

Teams for their kind advices and huge support in

my work. Also, it was a unique opportunity to

work in the perfect team in IPSF Executive

committee, consisted of very clever, kind,

responsible leaders and friends. The friendship

we have formed will be for life! IPSF – the best

experience ever!

Viva la Pharmacie

Vladimir Obradović

Chairperson of Internal Relations 2010-11

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Dear friends,

What a year! I will first introduce myself

and then explain to you what happened

during this amazing year as

Chairperson of Media and Publications for IPSF.

I am a 25-year-old French Pharmacist. I am now

living in Slovenia for one year. Last year, I was

the Contact Person for the Association Nationale

des Etudiants en Pharmacie de France.

That is it from my side. Now, what happened

during the year?

I started the year with one main objective: To

refresh and update the entire Media and

Publications portfolio.

This meant:

-Creating a new website.

-Implementing an e-voting process.

-Creating a layout for IPSF publications.

-Updating the IPSF guidelines and documents.

I started the year with a really low knowledge

about IT, websites and design. But I took some

online lectures to learn a few basic things.

Throughout the year, I was working with two

teams; an editorial board to review and proof-

read the articles and a designer. Without them I

could not have achieved what I did during the

year.

The most important thing that I had to take care

of was updating the old website and to create a

new one. We hired a company to create the new

website’s structure and the designs. The result

looks really professional with connections to

social networks and few other really nice

possibilities. I encourage you to go to the

address: http://www.ipsf.org to take a look.

While creating the website, we asked the

company to investigate an e-voting procedure for

our Federation. It is now a reality! IPSF will be

able to make decisions 365 days of the year. It

looks like a checkpoint was passed this year in

order for the Federation to move forward faster.

Regarding the publications, we did quite few with

my team. We actually published fourteen

Newsletters, a Phuture supplement and this

Annual Bulletin. 

It was quite a lot, I assume and I believe that it

was too much and may have been considered as

spamming you. But in the future, we will aim to

diminish the number of publications to avoid

spamming our members.

This year, I wanted to implement a proper layout

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for all IPSF publications. That way, students are

able to recognize immediately that this layout is

associated with an IPSF publication. Ms. Ines

Harzallah, the designer, created excellent and

beautiful designs and these were utilized in all of

this year’s published Newsletters. For both

Annual Bulletin and Phuture supplement, we

have used the same design. These two

publications should be released at the same time

so it is quite logical to use the same design.

Another aim of this year was to update the

guidelines of the Federation and the

documentations that we are using. This was

done for the Contact Person Handbook with the

help of the Chairperson of Internal relations. New

members will now have the most up-to-date

information at hand to be effective at their duties.

Information published on the IPSF website was

also updated by the entire Executive Committee.

So, that summarizes my main objectives and

since almost each one of them has now been

achieved, I have a good feeling.

Besides that, I had to take care of more general

issues or let say objectives. One objective that

took up most of my time was the European

Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA)

and IPSF Memorandum of Understanding. It was

accepted by the EPSA General Assembly and

hopefully, it will be accepted by the IPSF General

Assembly in Thailand.

This year was for sure the most amazing

experience of my life. I wish that all students can

live through the same experience I had if they

have the time and the motivation.

I had the chance of working with a really

motivated team and this was the thing that made

me enjoy it all so much this year.

I wish you all a really nice Congress for the ones

who will be in Thailand and I wish to all the

readers of this Publication a really nice upcoming

IPSF year.

Vive la pharmacie!

And see you soon!

Bastien Venot

Chairperson of Media and Publications

2010-11

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Dear friends,

The Student Exchange Programme is a

long-standing initiative of IPSF and one

that is most popular among our

membership base. The year 2010-11 has been a

milestone for IPSF and will hopefully become the

stepping stone to improving the quality of SEP for

the upcoming years. This year, a lot of work was

done in the background to move SEP forward.

This year, it was with great pleasure that IPSF

present to the world the new SEP database.

Webtown, the web-designing company from

Hungary contracted to create our new database,

did a fantastic job in encapsulating the workings

of the database and has provided us with what

we needed. Thanks to the diligence of the

Student Exchange Committee (SEC) members,

all Student Exchange Officers (SEOs) and

students from across the world, issues and

problems were quickly identified and solved once

the website was launched. It is hoped that the

database will continue to serve its use for SEP

for many years to come.

In the past, quality of SEP placements has varied

immensely from country to country, city to city. In

a bid to standardise and improve on the quality

of placements, members of SEC have discussed

and decided to implement minimum number of

working hours for all SEP placements and trial a

reporting system where SEOs are given the

opportunity to comment on both successful and

unsuccessful exchanges. These changes will be

implemented into the upcoming SEP year with

the Domestic Rules and SEO Training Manual

updated to reflect these changes. It would be a

shock to the system at first for most countries and

SEOs but I strongly believe that this will help

improve SEP and take it to new heights.

One of the main goals set for this year is to

increase the number of SEP placements globally

to 800 places. At the time of writing this article,

we have only managed to reach 687 confirmed

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places. This is including the re-allocated

application forms from the AF Re-allocation

Project. Although the target goal has not been

reached, I am still rather pleased with the result

due to several setbacks that we encountered at

the start of the SEP year. The SEP database was

launched a month later than expected, pushing

back the regular deadlines of AF submissions to

the website. SEOs had to make do with a Google

Share document to share information about their

associations and what they can offer until the

SEP database was launched.

One of the greatest

achievements in the SEP

portfolio is the

collaboration between

IPSF and the European

Law Students’

Association (ELSA).

IPSF and ELSA are

offering one pharmacy

student and one law

student the opportunity to

work together on a joint

research project, entitled

‘Competition Law and

Pharmacy Law: How they integrate with each

other and how they clash?’. These two students

will be based in the Hague and housed at the

IPSF flat for the duration of the project. It is

hoped that the project will be concluded in early

2012 and will be ready for publication by mid

2012. This is the first time in the history of IPSF

that such a collaboration has been conducted in

the SEP portfolio. It is with immense gratitude

that I thank Ms. A. Elif Yildrim, the Vice-President

of ELSA and her team for their cooperation and

initiative in making this project a reality.

It is one of the main goals of the Executive

Committee to ensure that our work is transparent

to our members. For SEP, lack of transparency

in the selection of the SEP grant recipients were

criticised and pointed out by students and SEOs

alike. Thus, members of SEC have been working

on updating the selection criteria and making the

application process more transparent for the

upcoming SEP years. We hope that this will

answer the criticism and comments of our

members.

Another milestone this year is our partnership

with the International Pharmaceutical Federation

(FIP) Community Pharmacy Section (CPS). CPS

has agreed to assist in promoting SEP to their

membership base and has subsequently raised

the profile of SEP to great effects. Thank you to

Ms. Ema Paulino and Ms. Eeva Terasalmi of

CPS for their ongoing support.

I am sincerely thankful for being given this

opportunity to work alongside marvellous and

diligent pharmacy students and pharmacists

from around the world in bringing IPSF and SEP

to all pharmacy students. A huge thank you

MUST go to all the SEOs I have been working

with, members of my Student Exchange

Committee and of course, my beloved members

of the Executive Committee for their never-

wavering and ongoing support, guidance and

assistance. I must also express my thanks to my

family and friends who have continually given me

moral support in completing my role as

Chairperson of Student Exchange.

Viva la pharmacie! Viva la SEP!

Yours truly,

Melissa Teo

Chairperson of Student Exchange 2010-11

Figure 1: Members of SEC at the SEC meeting

in March 2011 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

From L to R: Balint Toth, Slavisa Stojkovic,

Elena Fasniuc, Melissa Teo, Kerstin Heyder,

Ilse Bollen and Milanka Marunic

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When I first started working with IPSF

three years ago, I had just begun

pharmacy school. I had heard the term

advocacy, but I did not understand really what it

meant for a pharmacy student. What I did know

was that I wanted to help people more than

anything else, and I wanted to find a way to help

more than those people in my own country.

With this in mind, I looked for any organization

that would offer worldwide opportunities. A

couple months into my pharmacy school career,

I received an email about IPSF that had

somehow been routed through four different

colleges of pharmacy before finally ending up in

my friend’s email and eventually being forwarded

to me.

The email was the yearly call for campaign

positions. I read through the available positions,

and I thought all of them sounded fascinating. I

ended up deciding that the campaign I wanted

to help out the most with was the Anti-Counterfeit

Drug Campaign, which needed a contents

coordinator that year. I was so nervous in

sending in my application information. I was so

unsure of what I’d written, even though I’d put a

lot of heart and thought into it. I wasn’t sure what

they were looking for. To my surprise, they were

looking for me!

I spent two years working with the ACDC team

as their contents coordinator, which prepared me

to step up into its coordinator position. In this

past year as the ACDC coordinator, I have been

able to better understand and value the work that

is put into not only the ACDC campaign but all

campaigns and what it truly means to be a

patient advocate. I see almost on a daily basis

new ideas for reaching

patients, and words cannot express how happy

I am to be a part of that.

This past year the ACDC team has worked on

several different projects. We have updated the

campaign website to include the most up-to-date

resources we have available for running a

campaign. We have published a semi-annual

newsletter with the first one having gone out in

February and the second to go out mid-July. We

are working on the ACDC campaign kit, which

will be available 30 July 2011. The last task I

really want to complete this year is to create an

online continuing education course from the

ACDC materials. I keep running into roadblocks

to getting it published, but I know with continued

determination, it can be done.

Each year I am involved with IPSF, I learn and

love more about the world we live in. Last year

in Slovenia, I was able to grow as a leader and

network with my future colleagues. This year’s

congress promises to continue those growth and

networking opportunities, and I cannot wait for it

to begin!

Christine Cooper

ACDC Coordinator 2010-11

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The IPSF year for me as the HIV

coordinator started pretty quick after the

annual congress in Slovenia, since the

world Aids Day takes place every year the 1st of

December – only a few months after the

congress. So soon after the world congress, my

subcommittee and I started to work hard on the

materials that were prepared for this years’

campaign.

Of course two weeks before the 1st of December

we published the World Aids Day Newsletter to

raise awareness and to get people more

interested in this years’ campaign. So all in all a

total of 16 contact persons asked for the total

campaign kit, out of those 16, unfortunately only

10 sent in an activity report – presenting their

results to the rest of the IPSF community. Thank

you very much to those ten countries for their

effort and their great work!

The kit for this year contained the step by step

booklet on how to run a successful campaign, a

fact sheet on Aids, a handout with myths & truths

about HIV and Aids, a powerpoint presentation

on the transmission of HIV and on Aids as well

as two different posters to raise awareness for

the local activities and invitation cards for it.

We also made a worldwide project, named – the

human ribbon. This means in different cities

around the globe people wore red T-shirts or red

jackets and formed a human red ribbon to show

their solidarity with people who are infected with

HIV and to show that we as pharmacy students

care.

This year was not always easy for me. At the

beginning there were so many things to be done

all at the same time, that at some points I thought

that I would not be able to cope with the amount

of work. But somehow you learn to cope with few

time and many things to do and therefore to

manage yourself better.

Additionally it was not always easy to work

together with people from all around the globe,

with all the different kinds of working mentality

and with different cultures. Doing so, I learned a

lot from all those wonderful people.

Working for IPSF means a lot of additional work

apart from your studies or apart from your normal

work. Still it is definitely worth the additional

work, and I would recommend everyone who

would like to learn from other cultures, from

pharmacy students all around the globe, to take

over a position in IPSF and enjoy the IPSF spirit!

Finally I would like to thank everyone who has

been organizing an HIV AIDS Campaign this

year, and a special thanks goes to Sharon who

has been a great support organizing the

campaign kit. But my subcommittee and

especially Lina shall not be forgotten. Without

you I would not have been

able to get everything

done in time!

Thank you and keep up

campaigning! AIDS and

HIV is not only among us

on the 1st of December

but around the whole

year!

Johanna Walz

HIV Coordinator 2010-11

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IPSF interest in care of Diabetes and healthy

living has grown since the declaration of

November 14th as the world international Day

for Diabetes and Healthy living. This year

together we put our efforts to raise the flag of

awareness and to increase public information

about the disease in order to BRING DIABETES

TO LIGHT. People from all over the world held

the flag and went through the challenge doing

different kind of activities to reach our aim.

Awareness campaigns , races , marches ,

caravans , celebrations , measuring blood sugar

level and BMR , world diabetes event and more

was done heading towards one goal and only

one goal.

What’s special about those campaigns that they

gathered pharmacy students from the different

countries and continents in the same day and

having the same dream? Dressing in blue was

the code and holding the blue ring was the

theme. Along the other achievements done this

year is the successful and very knowledgable

KIT done to inform the young pharmacists with

the necessary information needed in their

journey for awareness. A step by step news letter

was the true aid in holding the campaign and

knowing the necessary steps needed to bring it

in the best way ever. Sharing information through

the public health Yahoo group within different

associations around the world brought joy to

everyone by knowing that other people care

about and working in the same health issue.

Members from Tunisia, Malta, Poland, Egypt,

Indonesia, Serbia, Latvia and many other

countries were the leading champions in our

Global campaign. The campaign was

multilingual and delivered in different ways and

aspects to different kind of segments starting

from the poor villages and up to the universities

and malls. Some associations even distributed

medicines under the supervision of physicians

and their creativity took them to a new place

where you give people candy to avoid

hypoglycemic comma. Analyzing different risk

factors and informing the audiences with them

was another part of the international effort.

Eventually we have come to realize that

Diabetes is a very dangerous disease with many

complications and it may be even a silent killer ,

so people had to know that, work against it and

make a declaration that we WILL KNOW OUR

DISEASE prior to fighting it.

Different info was brought to others by using

several materials including newsletters, flier,

posters, brochures, banners, blue rings, T-shirts,

fact sheets and even book marks which can

show the simplest data in an intentional way.

The year of Diabetes and healthy living was full

of successes due to the efforts of IPSFers each

and every where.

WE ARE THE STARS

AND WE WILL REMAIN

TO BE!

Thanks for everyone

who took the lead to

make to world a better

place fighting the

Diabetes and with a

better healthy life.

Best of luck in IPSF

upcoming campaigns.

Fedaa Moussa

Diabetes and Healthy living

Coordinator 2010-11

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Being the Tobacco Awareness Coordinator

in IPSF is really challenging, especially

when I knew that there will be Tobacco

Campaign in the upcoming huge congress in

Thailand. I have 6 amazing people in my team

that helped me a lot doing my task. From the

beginning of my term they have helped me a lot,

although we are living in different countries and

in different time zones, we still got chance to

have online meetings one on one to discuss our

plan for Tobacco Awareness’ activities. This

year’s theme from World Health Organization

(WHO) is not something that we should just do,

but we have to sit down and think first, what can

we do for our country in Tobacco Control, that is

also a moment where people can realize why is

31st May called as World No Tobacco Day, how

tobacco industry has influenced a lot of people

in their environment and how bad it is for future

health.

The “Framework Convention of Tobacco Control”

theme is the thing that is really happening in

several countries. Some people realize the

dangers associated with smoking, so they avoid

it, although some are still pursuing it. This theme

told us that the Role of Tobacco Industry is also

the main reason why smokers increase a lot

every year. This is why, the limitation and

boundaries needed to be set, in order to make

people realize that smoking is totally not a good

thing to do. By the good regulation in one

country, it will help to prevent their young

generation from tobacco.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco

Control (WHO FCTC) is the world's foremost

tobacco control instrument. The first treaty ever

negotiated under the auspices of WHO, it

represents a signal achievement in the

advancement of public health. World No

Tobacco Day 2011 designed to highlight the

treaty's overall importance, to stress Parties'

obligations under the treaty and to promote the

essential role of the Conference of the Parties

and WHO in supporting countries' efforts to meet

those obligations. The Conference of the Parties

is the treaty's central organ and governing body.

Being a coordinator in one Public Health days

was a great experience, started my first IPSF

journey in Bali 2009, where I also knew about

World No Tobacco Day and other Public Health

days from IPSF. We learned not only how to

make campaign in Public Health days, but also

how to make an ordinary activity, small acts,

which can impact a lot to our surroundings. IPSF

is the right place for you to learn about it too,

getting to know great people from other side of

the world, discussing what to be prepared for

Tobacco Kit, working with a team that consists

from people in many different countries,

promoting not only by materials, but just one

media, internet and of course, learn something

more to make a

healthier world

free from

tobacco. Vive La

Pharmacie!

Dwi Ruth

Tobacco Awareness Coordinator 2010-11

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Hello IPSFers, it is my honor to write this

message as being the TB Coordinator for

the IPSF for year 2010 – 2011.

As someone has said this very truly that-“time

flies away very fast”, I too feel this now.

Working as the TB Coordinator has made me so

actively involved with my duties, that writing this

I wonder how the time has come to an end to

handover my duties back to the IPSF.

Working for IPSF has always being my passion

and interest since my college days, when I first

heard about this organization. On given this

golden chance to serve this noble post, I have

tried to do justice with it. I have designed the TB

newsletters, created a TB video, maintained a

database and also helped the member countries

to conduct the TB campaigns and spread the

awareness about TB in their respective countries

so that lives of million people can be saved.

It was great to share emails, conduct online

meetings and chats to share the experiences

and ideas to increase the public health condition

for every country in respect to TB. I tried my very

best to be loyal and up to date with all the current

news and measures in order to curb this deadly

disease. I am extremely grateful to all the direct

and indirect sources who have guided me at

every step.

Finally, I would like to extend my vote of thanks

to all the Executive members of IPSF,

Coordinators public health committees, regional

working groups, all other Sub-committee

members and the IPSFers, without whom, I

would not have been able to discharge my duties

to the best of my abilities.

Last but not the Least, I would like to thank the

Chairperson of Public Health “Miss Sharon

Leung” who has always been there to support

me and helped me to complete this work tenure

as TB coordinator more efficiently and with

Patience and Confidence.

There is much more emotions than words to put

in here to share with you, how I felt being a part

of working committee member of IPSF, but I

conclude this here with a new hope and new

passion that, IF I am given a further chance to

serve this organization, I shall do it with great

interest and Zeal.

Dhanyawaad (Thank you in Hindi)

Jasmit Singh

TB Coordinator 2010-11

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Two years ago, IPSF was unknown to

me. I discovered IPSF spirit during the

56th World Congress in Slovenia. My

national association applied for full membership.

I would never forget the feeling I’ve felt and the

tears in my eyes when all the members at the

GA gave the Tunisian delegation a standing

ovation. It has signed the beginning of a new life

for me.

I was very interested in inforgraphy. I decided to

send my nomination for the Design and

Creativity Sub Committee. I have spent a long

night in our hostel in Ljubljana writing my

nomination form. I was upset when my name

didn’t appear in the list of DCSC members. I

decided to forget about this.

At that same time, I was in touch with the

Swedish cp. The first creation I had at an

international level was SNAPS logo. It was fun

and I was pleased to know that the association

adopted the logo as their official one. It was an

honor for me. This story made me change my

mind. I’ve felt that I really deserve my place in

DCSC. I needed this adventure with IPSF and

applied for the second time.

Now all I can say is a big thank you to all my

friends that really insisted that I apply again. I’m

really happy I haven’t miss my chance to be

involved in IPSF.

I didn’t imagine when applying that in less than

a year, I would be the designer of the federation.

I have been in a regular contact with Bastien,

Chairperson of Media and Publications, creating

a lot of publications (newsletters, promotional

posters, banners, IPSF merchandise,

headletter…). The position fit me to perfection

because I really loved every moment spent on

designing.

When integrating DCSC, my main aim was

creating a solid visual identity to IPSF

publications. This began with the creation of a

new layout for the newsletters that was

maintained for all the issues. I have done my

best to create attractive public health kits. I hope

that these kits motivated some associations to

raise their own campaigns. I also wish that you

will like the IPSF new official T-Shirts, ties,

scarves and pins.

I had to deal in parallel with my responsibilities

in ATEP (Association Tunisienne des Etudiants

en Pharmacie). I am the secretary general and

responsible for the publications. I must say, that

this year was one of the busiest years in my

entire life but I loved every bit of it. I must be a

hard worker. Actually, I must say that when I

don’t find a new email when I check my inbox, I

feel almost disappointed. I simply love being

overwhelmed with things to do. I went beyond

my limits and I am proud to say that I met the

challenge.

During this year, I met virtually a lot of wonderful

people. I had a unique chance to talk with

IPSFers from all the continents. Collaborating on

different projects (Public Health, IPSF

Merchandises, SEP, Professional Development,

AfRO RWG…). I’m just waiting for the moment I

am going to meet you all for real this time in

Thailand.

I must admit I am lucky to be an

IPSFer.Ines Harzallah

IPSF DCSC member 2010-11

Dear IPSFers,

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It is my great pleasure to bring you the latest

news about EPSA’s projects, activities and

future events.

First of all, a piece of information worthy of being

mentioned is that EPSA has signed a

Memorandum of Understanding with IPSF, thus

consolidating the bond between our

associations, during the 34th Annual Congress,

in Lisbon, Portugal. This moment was witnessed

by a record number of 450 participants, as this

was the biggest EPSA event organised until

now, for which we have AEFFUL Portugal to

thank.

The EPSA Individual Mobility Project (IMP) has

continued to develop and strengthen, raising the

interest of our members, since it was

implemented, in 2009.IMP offers students and

recent graduates the opportunity to do a paid

traineeship in a foreign country, enabling them

to gain valuable experience in various fields of

the pharmaceutical profession. Now, we are

able to provide our members with a number of

30 placements.

Besides IMP, the Mobility department has also

been focusing on a fresh, dynamic project. It is

called the EPSA Voyage and it will promote the

EPSA community as a living organism that

connects students and pharmacy graduates

from all the European countries, giving them the

possibility to travel across the continent at

minimum costs. This way, people who are not

able to attend our events will still have the

possibility to feel they belong to the EPSA family.

Regarding future events, this summer’s most

awaited event is, without a doubt, the 13th EPSA

Summer University in Warsaw, Poland. The

educational programme will be delivered by the

EPSA Trainers and it will focus on leadership

and career skills.

In addition, this fall, we are inviting our members

to the 8th EPSA Autumn Assembly, in

Birmingham, United Kingdom. The theme of the

events is “Sexual Health” and on this occasion

the Educational Board of EPSA will launch an

anti-AIDS campaign.

Last but not least, I am proudly announcing that

EPSA will soon reach a milestone in its path, the

35th Anniversary, which will be celebrated with

much enthusiasm during the 35th Annual

Congress in 2012. On this occasion, an

anniversary booklet will be published, to review

all the steps that have lead us, EPSA, to the

bright place in which we find ourselves today!

Yours in EPSA,

Raluca Negricea

Vice President of Public Relations

EPSA 2011-12

Dear IPSF friends,

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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign:

Based on the desire of taking a leading

role in Health Promotion and Public

Education Qatar Pharmacy Undergraduate

Society QPhUS organized a Breast Cancer

Awareness Campaign which was held from 25th

– 27th October 2010 in Qatar university female

campus’s food court under the title of “Think

Pink” The aim of this campaign was to educate

the university female faculty, staff and students

about breast cancer and promote self-

examinations. QPhUS partnered with Qatar

National Cancer Society QNCS and Al-Amal

cancer hospital to provide brochures, lectures,

and workshops. Throughout the event, Over 200

students attended workshops, discussion

sessions, private counseling, and self-

examination training sessions.

3rd annual potluck: (February 2011) QPhUS

organized the 3rd annual potluck in 7th of

February; 2011.This event gave an opportunity

for the Qatari college of pharmacy faculty, staff,

and students to share few hours of “get-together”

by sharing the national anthem, flags, cultural

dresses and food. Volunteers organized and

decorated the room while participants had the

opportunity to share any form of their home

country food (ranging from main dish to deserts)

with the other college members.

24 countries were represented on that day and

Qatar University Newsletter reporter visited the

event.

What has QPhUS done since receiving theIPSF Otto Föcking Award 2010?

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Open day: (April 2011) This event was opened

for future female students and their parents who

are interested in a career in Pharmacy,

Biomedical Science and Human Nutrition.

Health Science tour guides provided information

in Arabic and English and directed the guests on

pre-planned tours in each of the three disciplines.

Eastern Mediterranean Pharmaceutical

Symposium: July 2011: QPhUS is hosting and

organizing the biggest Eastern Mediterranean

regional event EMPS which will take place in

Doha –Qatar 15th – 21st of July 2011

EMPS will provide pharmaceutical students and

recent graduates from over 9 member countries

with the opportunity of widening the range of their

contacts, and learning and updating themselves

with the pharmaceutical field’s most recent

topics.

EMPS has a very interesting scientific, social,

and cultural 7 days program plus one day post

symposium adventure.

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From 3 to 8 September 2011, the

International Pharmaceutical

Federation (FIP), together with the

Indian Pharmaceutical Association, is

hosting the 71st World Congress of

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,

This congress is taking place in Hyderabad,

in the heart of wonderful India. Through the

numerous sessions and social events, this

congress guarantees to be a global platform

of professional learning and bringing

together thousands of practitioners and

scientists from all disciplines and from all

over the world.

Congress Programme

‘Compromising safety and quality: a risky path’

is this year’s main theme. It is carrying with it the

message that safety and quality are at constant

risk throughout the medicines supply chain,

despite the best efforts of all to ensure their

security and the specific efforts of pharmacists

to continually uphold patient safety.

http://fip.org/hyderabad2011/hyderabad_outline

In addition to general sessions that broadly

incorporate the theme, each FIP pharmacy

practice section offers their own separate

streams with specific learning targets and

engaging speakers.

http://fip.org/hyderabad2011/hyderabad_progra

mme_persection

Are you a First Time Congress Participant?

FIP is offering once again the First Timers

Mentor Programme.

This will allow new participants to pair up with

previous Congress participants to get seasoned

advice on Congress activities and immediately

start growing their global network and enjoying

the congress together!

http://fip.org/hyderabad2011/hyderabad_firstime

rs

Social Events

The FIP Congress Social Events provide

invaluable opportunities to meet new friends and

colleagues. After the kick-off Opening

Ceremony and the Welcome Party, the YPG and

IPSF will host an International Evening for all the

students and young pharmacists. This is an

informal way to reunite with your colleagues and

friends. In addition the YPG is organizing the

YPG Dinner for their members, with the

Pharmacy students! Let’s meet at the 2011FIP World Congress in Hyderabad, India!

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important goal of having a good together!

http://fip.org/hyderabad2011/hyderabad_social

Get together – Travel India!

This is also the PERFECT opportunity to get a

group together – either old friends you are

meeting again or those new to you from your FIP

Congress experience - and travel India! The

country is a wealth of sites, sounds, tastes and

cultures – why not share it with other students

and young, future pharmacists just like you? And

if you don’t want the task of arranging things on

your own, FIP would be happy to help you make

arrangements for tours and travel both before

and after the Congress.

For more information and registration (at

SPECIAL STUDENT FEES) please visit the

website http://fip.org/hyderabad2011/

We’re waiting to meet you in Hyderabad!

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Myriah Lesko

FIP Manager Media and Publications

Among all of the different projects we

organize over the year, we, at CPSA

Croatia, love the humanitarian ones the

most. That’s why, with only 55 members, it’s a

real pleasure to say that we managed to

organize 5 humanitarian events during this

academic year. Some are traditional events of

ours, and others were newly implemented, but

both were successful and we’re extremely proud

of them.

For the 7th time in our history, in December

2010, the traditional pPancakes and cookies day

took place. An always joyful and fun event was

perfected with the Christmas spirit at the faculty.

Pancakes, cookies, muffins, cakes, mulled wine

and hot chocolate filled the student’s

houseroom, attracting lots of students and

faculty staff. Every pPancakes and cookies day

so far had a different humanitarian cause, either

helping unfortunate families or humanitarian

associations, but this one was a bit closer to our

hearts. Two months prior this event, a colleague

of ours suffered from some severe injuries in a

car accident and is now in rehabilitation with slim

chances of ever walking again. That’s why we

decided that the earnings will go to our friend’s

family who is, who’s facing financial trouble

because of the high costs of physical therapy in

Croatia. Thanks to our members, who donated

flour, sugar, eggs, baked cookies, cakes,

pancakes and other delicacies, and all the

students who didn’t mind putting on a few

pounds and going crazy on sweets we managed

to raise an amazing amount of 1000€ for our

friend. Another great accomplishment of the day

was the achievement of an agreement with the

faculty to implement a ramp for the disabled,

which our faculty lacked so far. Everybody had

an awesome time and a great cause was

achieved. Since we were in such a festive mood,

two more events were held in December. The

first one was collecting sweets, clothes, toys and

money donations for an orphanage in Zagreb,

the “Nazorova” children’s home. Our students

showed, once again, their big hearts and in

collaboration with a couple of pharmacies we

managed to make Christmas a little happier for

more than 80 orphans. For the second event

was a collaboration betweent CPSA , joined a

few other student s’ associations and the “Ana

Rukavina” foundation, which promotes voluntary

bone marrow donations in order to improve the

Croatian bone marrow registry and implement a

stem cell bank. On the 21st of December, a huge

concert took place on Zagreb’s main square,

along with the collecting of blood samples to be

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implemented in the donors’ registry. Our

members volunteered to help this noble cause

and also spread information about the foundation

to our students.

After the long winter, we decided it was time for

another pPancakes and cookies day – summer

style!! The aim was the same, and on the 26th of

May, our rooms were once again occupied with

yummy sweets, sangria and cocktails. The

atmosphere was amazing as always, with all of

us having fun and hwhile helping our friend at the

same time. This action was followed by a project

called “Students for Gornja Bistra special

hospital for children’s chronic diseases”.

Students once again reached in their pockets

and gave a few kunas, along with juice boxes,

pajamas and food which the hospital desperately

neededs.

This is an unique kind of a hospital in Croatia,

where 110 unfortunate children and older

patients too, live their whole lives, bound on their

beds, having only nurses and doctors as family.

The types of diseases that are being treated here

don’t allow these patients to ever leave the walls

of Gornja Bistra hospital, which is in a poor state

and is being quite neglected by the government.

With the help of the “Phoenix farmacija”

company, we managed to collect a meaningful

donation for the hospital, consisting of medical

supplies, food, juices, cosmetics and clothes.

What mattered even more was our visit to the

hospital, which was very touching. It and made

us humble and and grateful for the greatest gift

every person can receive; health and family. It is

these kinds of projects, which bring the smiles

on the children’s faces that , which make us at

CPSA, think of more humanitarian actions to

organize.

We hope that these traditions will be continued

by generations that will follow us and they’ll have

as much success as we had in carrying them out.

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Ana Babić,

CP for CPSA Croatia 2010/2011

Bem Kemafar UNPAD-Indonesia

As a little bit of an introduction to Indonesia,

Jamu is a traditional Indonesian

indigenous medicine and it’s possible to

be studied moreover to become a clinically

approved medicine since Indonesia has

sufficient and abundant amount of natural

herbals. That’s why lecturers’ team of Pharmacy

Padjadjaran University Indonesia needed to hold

an event to explore scientifically about Jamu as

our ancestor’s heritage and in turn make it into

a clinically approved drug. This great idea bears

an event, which resulted in the International and

Seminar Expo on Jamu (ISEJ) that was held

on 5th-6th November 2010 at Graha Sanusi of

Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java,

Indonesia in association with the Indonesian

Medical Association in Herbal Medicines

(PDHMI) and the Indonesian Herbs and

Traditional Medicine Association (GP Jamu).

WORLD DIABETES DAY – On Nov 15th, 2010,

we updated some information related to

diabetes on the communication wall. We also

made posters and articles. Since most of the

students were having laboratory practices and

full time classes, we made this as a small scale

campaign. The important thing is that we can

share more information about diabetes, improve

our knowledge about this illness and remind

people that we can prevent this kind of inherited

illness through healthy living.

WORLD HIV/AIDS DAY – On Dec 1st, 2010, we

put up some posters and articles on the

communication wall, made leaflets, gave little

red ribbons to people and alerted them that it

was “World AIDS Day”. We gave some

information to people about this illness. For

example, what is HIV/AIDS? How does it

spread? How can we prevent it? As a future

pharmacist, this is a challenge that we have to

face. We have to be able to give this kind of

information to the public, so this is a chance for

us to improve on our communication skill.

ONE DAY FUN WITH IPSF - This is a

welcoming party for our new members, the 1st

year students. We had fun together with the

juniors. They were divided into 5 groups and the

seniors introduced many thing about IPSF to

them. We played games, shared information

about the annual events of IPSF and how to

become an official delegate. At the end of the

event, each group presented their creativity by

entertaining people. And yes, it was truly a One

Day Fun with IPSF.

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WORLD TUBERCULOSIS (TB)DAY – This was

our very first mini campaign project this year! It

was held on March 24th. We successfully gave

out 100 pamphlets, put on articles on the

communication wall and also made an article to

be published in “Medifar”, our campus magazine.

We were divided into groups and then we spread

some information about TB to the public. We

began by meeting at the campus’s main gate to

get more people’s attention. It was a

communicative campaign where people

responded to our explanation. Many people were

curious about this illness. We told them about

what’s this contagious illness, how to prevent it,

and how to cure it. We enjoyed the campaign

and was happy that we were able to give that

kind of information to the people. It was also

beneficial to us because we’re able to exercise

and improve our communication skills.

Pharmacists Road to Public (PHARODI) was

held from April 30th toMay 1st , 2011. Materials

about communication skills and patient

counseling were given by two professional

practitioners from Kimia Farma and Boromeus

Hospital. Presentations, games and simulating

ideas about counseling skills were given and

evaluated by a professional counselor at the

pharmacy installation,Boromeus Hospital. All of

the participants were divided into groups.

Afterwards, they went into four different

pharmacies around the campus in order to get a

first hand experience of the pharmacy

installation.

WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY – May 29th, 2011

was a very exciting moment because it is the

biggest campaign we held this year!

Collaborating with other participants from other

organisations, including ISMAFARSI-West Java

Region and JMKI, we did a long march along

Dago road to attract the public. During the

march, we brought awareness about what we’re

doing. We made posters and 600 pamphlets that

explained more information about tobacco and

its danger. Since many people still don’t care

about smoking in public area, we prepared 200

products to be switched with cigarettes. We

came to people who smoke and let them know

that it was World No Tobacco Day. We need their

participation to stop smoking, especially in public

area. We promoted our free consultation by

pharmacists booth and also our newest

innovation, the nicotine replacement tablet

.There’re many people who came and told us

that they wanted to quit smoking but they’re

addicted, so hopefully, this product will help

them.

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Putri Wulansari Yanuastri

CP for BEM KEMAFAR UNPAD Indonesia

To follow is a summary of all that NAPSA

has accomplished over its 2010/11 term.

As an association:

• Attended major professional conferences:

o Australian Pharmacy Professional, run by the

Pharmacy Guild of Australia. Gold Coast

Conference Centre, March 18th to 20th 2011.

o Pharmacy Australia Conference, run by the

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Melbourne

Convention Centre, 28th to 31st October 2010.

• Developed a Business Plan for 2011-13

NAPSA terms.

• Established of a Company Secretariat for

NAPSA.

• Developed of a NAPSA Trust.

• Hosted the annual NAPSA Congress:

o Adelaide, 24th to 30th January 2011.

o Wagga Wagga, January 2012 to be the first

rural congress hosted.

• Improved NAPSA’s media presence.

• Hosted a NAPSA Summit with significant

alumni and stakeholders.

• Partaked in the lobbying groups, the

Australian Pharmacy Liaison Forum and the

Pharmacy Coalition for Health Reform.

• Attended the Future of Pharmacy

Stakeholder’s Forum.

Rural and Indigenous Affairs Committee

• Worked towards our major goal of raising

awareness of the health inequities faced by

rural are remote Australians, and ways

pharmacists can make a difference.

• Strengthened current and initiated new

industry relationships for liaison, consultation

and collaborative work towards the

committee's goals.

• Represented NAPSA at the annual

conference of the National Rural Health

Students Network in Alice Springs in July 2010.

• Increased collaboration with rural special

interests groups to raise awareness of rural

health issues through NAPSA.

• Collaborated with the NAPSA Publications

Chair to produce the Rural Focus Edition of

Placebo to promote rural pharmacy and

programs that enabled more student to work in

rural areas.

• Created and launched the 2011 Rural and

Indigenous Affairs Survey, receiving over 500

responses from pharmacy students across

Australia. The data from this survey will be

used to target universities and professional

bodies within pharmacy to better support

pharmacy students wanting to work in areas of

need, and promote the issues of rural

pharmacy and Indigenous health to all

pharmacy students in Australia.

Publications Committee

• Produced the Placebo, our quarterly

newsletter, which keeps members and the

pharmaceutical industry up to date with what

NAPSA is doing.

• Maintained the NAPSA website

(www.napsa.org.au) so it is current and

beneficial to members as well as others who

happen to visit the site.

Education Committee

• Delivered many education courses for our

branches including Complementary

Healthcare, Woundcare, First Aid as well as

launched a new course on OTC knowledge.

• Subsidised reference textbooks have been

made available to all members

Pharmacy Awareness Committee

• Successfully facilitated a young growing

charity into our NAPSA fundraising initiative,

Charity Cup.

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• Promoted and emphasised, on a national

scale, the NAPSA blood donation drive,

Vampire Cup.

• Revolutionized Pharmacy Week to assert

greater awareness in the Australian community.

IPSF Committee

• Increased NAPSA’s presence within IPSF

through attendance of online meetings and by

sending both Official Delegates and a large

number of members to IPSF World Congress.

• Sent a number of students to Japan on the

Japan Study Tour.

• Forwarded applicants for various WHO

internships.

• Increased NAPSA’s Student Exchange

Program. We have placed a number of

students to date and will place more. We are

looking at placing about 15 students. This is a

large improvement, as we haven’t placed any

for a couple of years now.

• Built networks of pharmacy owners and host

families for future function of the SEP.

• Prepared documents for pharmacists to

inform them about the SEP.

Industrial Affairs Committee

• Produced a Congress Survey focusing on

pharmacist based immunisation. A majority of

the surveys participants agreed that

pharmacists should include immunisation in

their skill base. Production of a media release

which resulted in significant industry feedback

and welcome responses.

• Written an article focusing on Immunisation

for Australian Pharmacist Magazine, a

publication of the Pharmaceutical Society of

Australia.

• Completed of a national pharmacy student

survey (NPSS). Results are currently being

analysed but themes of oversupply of

pharmacy graduates appear to be a common

theme.Stacey Gough

NAPSA IPSF Chair 2010-11