A day to celebrate the 4 million pharmacists worldwide.
This year’s World Pharmacists Day theme “United in action for a healthier world” aims to showcase pharmacy’s positive impact on health around the world and to further strengthen solidarity among the profession.
There are many improvements to health and wellbeing of which the pharmacy profession can be proud.
FIP president Mr Dominique Jordan says that pharmacists should be proud of their contributions under The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 3 covering a number of health targets, including non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and mental health) and communicable diseases (for example, HIV, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases).
Nevertheless, the sector now faces the task of restoring essential health services that have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic when more people have been unable to get health check-ups, vaccinations and even urgent car
Decades of improvements in health outcomes are under threat of reversal. If universal health coverage is to become a reality by 2030, growth in the provision and use of essential health services must greatly accelerate. Pharmacy — through its many sectors and areas of expertise — is vital to this vision!
Learn more on the official International Pharmaceutical Federation FIP website
What is the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)?
The founder of World Pharmacists Day, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) is the global body representing pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences, and pharmaceutical education. Through their 144 national organisations, academic institutional members and individual members, they represent millions of pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists and pharmaceutical educators around the world. FIP is a non-governmental organisation with its head office in the Netherlands. Through their partnerships and extensive pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences network, they work to support the development of the pharmacy profession, through practice and emerging scientific innovations, and through developing the pharmacy workforce in order to meet the world’s health care needs and expectations.
Why is there a celebration called World Pharmacist Day?
The purpose of World Pharmacists Day, which was brought to life at the FIP Council 2009 in Istanbul, is to encourage activities that promote and advocate for the role of the pharmacist in improving health in every corner of the world. Pharmacists are the reason why people get the best from their medicines, they are using their experience, knowledge, and expertise to make the (medical) world a better place for everybody. Moreover, they give access to medicines, advise people on how to properly take them and so much more.
Why is it celebrated on September 25?
The Turkish members of FIP suggested the Date because the FIP was established on the same day in 1912.
