Based on FIP data, Dr Catherine Duggan, chief executive officer at FIP, highlights the vital role of pharmacies in vaccine promotion, advocacy, and administration, emphasising the importance of leveraging pharmacists’ accessibility and convenience as vaccination pathways for all ages globally.
Life Course Immunisation (LCI) presents an advocacy framework for protection against vaccine-preventable diseases throughout the course of our lives. Investing in a life-course approach in national immunisation programmes brings wide health and economic benefits, protects all ages from vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, and reduces disease burden, better preparing us all to live longer and more productive lives. In a context where older persons comprise the world’s fastest-growing age group, maintaining a healthy, fit older population will become very important for individuals. LCI strategies are a cost-effective means of improving health throughout the duration of adult life. Adult vaccination not only reduces the incidence and severity of infectious diseases but also reduces the incidence and severity of comorbidities with noncommunicable conditions.
To showcase the impact of pharmacy-based vaccinations in the United Kingdom, Alison Jones, Director of Policy & Communication, at the Pharmacists’ Defence Association, United Kingdom, shares a compelling narrative and experiences that underscore the vital role pharmacies play in vaccination efforts.
To showcase the impact of pharmacy-based vaccinations in Great Britain, Claire Anderson, President, of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Great Britain, shares a compelling narrative and experiences that underscore the vital role pharmacies play in vaccination efforts.
To showcase the impact of pharmacy-based vaccinations in France, Carine Wolf-Thal, President of, the French Chamber of Pharmacists, shares a compelling narrative and experiences that underscore the vital role pharmacies play in vaccination efforts.
To showcase the impact of pharmacy-based vaccinations in South Africa, Refiloe Mogale, Executive Director of, the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, shares a compelling narrative and experiences that underscore the vital role pharmacies play in vaccination efforts.
This is a dynamic video presentation providing an overview of advancing life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination, tied into the global policies and the data that support it.
This comprehensive advocacy brochure is derived from the FIP statement of policy on life-course vaccination and highlights key insights from our recent survey report, providing a clear and informative perspective on the importance of vaccinations through the life course.
In addition to providing a range of campaign materials, FIP’s 2024 World Pharmacy Week activities included a high-level policy symposium at UN City, Copenhagen, in collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.
This poster was exhibited at the event, showcasing the contribution of the pharmacy profession to health to all visitors to the United Nations Building.
In April 2024, FIP hosted a policy development summit to focus on the growing role of pharmacy in vaccinations and to describe and define the parameters for implementing the FIP global policy on life course immunisation. This report summarises the insights, data, expertise and experiences shared during the summit and is a foundational document for the development of a policy framework for life course immunisation globally. This summit represented the first step in delivering this framework.
