Episode 9: The Future of Pharmacy with Dr. Catherine Duggan (CEO, FIP)

Link to FIP Congress Seville: https://seville2022.fip.org/

Dr. Catherine Duggan is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Pharmaceutical Federation and is responsible for visionary leadership, support, development, advocacy and growth across the 150 member organizations and the four million pharmacists and scientists FIP represents. In 2019, Catherine chaired the World Professions Health Alliance (represents 35 million health professionals across medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and pharmacy) and signed the FIP MOU with WHO in May 2019 at the World Health Assembly meeting. The MoU builds on the formal established relationship WHO and FIP have held since 1948 and secures how pharmacy contributes globally to Primary Health Care to deliver Universal Health Coverage. By signing the profession up to the Astana declaration in 2018, pharmacy will present evidence of impact to health ministers of pharmacy’s impact (science, practice, workforce) to a ministers’ summit in 2023. This involves data through the FIP observatory, support through the FIP platform for provision and our FIP wide programme to deliver the 21 FIP development goals.

Until April 2018, Dr Catherine Duggan was the Director of Professional Development at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, where she was responsible for the delivery of professional advice and support to all members across all sectors; the development of strategies to share and showcase good practice across the profession and development and implementation of professional standards for pharmacy. From 2012, Catherine led the development, implementation and strategic embedding of RPS Faculty and Foundation programme into continuing professional development.

Dr. Duggan has published widely and presented at national and international meetings and has a wealth of people and programme management experience. She is a recognized leader across the profession working with many networks within and across the profession and, more widely, health and business. Catherine has worked in community, primary care, hospital and academia. Between 2007 and 2009, Catherine was the Chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and then an elected member of the Council of the RPSGB.

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Aska Patel, is a pharmacist, entrepreneur, and podcast host with a mission to seek answers to her questions about the future of pharmacy, healthcare, healthtech, and health systems. She founded Diverse Conversations Podcast in 2021 and has since covered topics ranging from advocacy, digital health, health systems, and healthcare provider perspectives. She is also the founder and CEO of Acuvise Consultancy Inc., where she provides product strategy and market research support to health technology companies.

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