Attendance an online digital event on May. 21, 2024 entitled “Learnings from Policy Leaders in Pharmacy around the World: Eastern Mediterranean Region/Middle East”. The event was offered by International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). 

Description: The academic part concluded with a strategic outline, advocacy and universal effect were realized as pivotal priorities for the part. Panelists presenting key stakeholders all over the world were called to identify the following questions linked to advocacy and alteration management. 

1) What has done well in your area to form education policy? 

2) What obstacles did you encounter?

3) How can the FIP academic part affect education policy in your area? 

4) What counsel do you own for individuals entering this region of policy and advocacy in pharmacy education? Live participants were promoted to supply additional views.

Learning objectives:

1. Recognize key obstacles faced by academic stakeholders all over the world.

2. Talk about the preferable practices established on regional evaluation or consideration for forming regional educational policy.

3. Demonstrate how the FIP academic part can help with advocacy efforts to affect education policy all over the world.

4. Share counsel for individuals following advocacy to ease policy alteration to progress pharmacy education all over the world.

Moderators:

- Barry Bleidt, Adjunct Professor - Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida A&M University, United States.

- Jeanine P. Abrons, PharmD, MS, FAPhA, Clinical Associate Professor; Director of International Student Pharmacist Activities; Co-Director UI Mobile Clinic, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, United States.

Panellists:

- Dixon Thomas, Professor & Associate Dean Clinical, Gulf Medical University, United Arab Emirates.

- Yousif Asiri, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, King Saud University / University of the Pacific, Saudi Arabia.

- Suhaib Muflih, Associate Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.

- Nisreen Mourad, PharmD, MSc, Chairperson, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Lebanon.