IPSF's contribution to pharmacy honoured
Pang Wee Siang
Outgoing president of the CPA Grace Allen Young presented the award |
The International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation has received the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association's Albert Howell award in recognition of the federation's significant contribution to pharmacy.
The award, given in honour of the CPA’s founding president, was
presented to Audrey Clarissa, current president of the IPSF, by the CPA’s
outgoing president Grace Allen Young at the ninth CPA conference held
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr Allen Young explained that the IPSF
had grown to be a leading international advocacy organisation for pharmacy
students and highlighted the IPSF’s input into the Neema Clinic
project in Kiromo, Tanzania, and the TB Fact Card project in Mumbai,
India.
A report of the CPA conference will
be published by The Pharmaceutical
Journal in September 2007.
CPA new president Ivan
Kotze, executive director of the Pharmaceutical Society
of South Africa, was announced as the CPA’s new president at the conference
farewell banquet. Mr Kotze was a vice-president of CPA and regional representative
for Eastern and Southern Africa.
The next CPA conference will be held in association
with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, from 5 to 9 August
2009. |
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