FIPEd’s Workforce Development Hub (WDH) – formerly the Education Development Team (EDT) – connects and supports units within FIP and external to FIP (for example the World Health Organization Department of Human Resources for Health) to achieve the goal of transforming the global pharmaceutical workforce to meet the health needs of societies. The hub provides a focal point for project work and activity based on FIP’s education and workforce mission, and also for the wider mission of FIP and its constituencies.

The WDH brings together experts to undertake projects to generate workforce intelligence and provide evidence-based resources and tools to inform and support education and workforce development. In association with the membership outreach provided by FIP’s Academic Pharmacy Section and Academic Institutional Membership, the hub will provide a wide scope of access for project work for FIPEd and FIP.

The hub’s activities expand across three key workstreams:

1. Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals: Monitoring, progressing and enabling
2. Workforce intelligence: Data capture and reporting; analysis and informing
3. Co-creating education/workforce research and policy, and generating ideas

Operating principles: A collaborative hub of workforce and education experts and collaborators

For collaborative projects, the WDH will draw on the following strategic principles in order to pursue its remit:

• Expand the global evidence base on pharmaceutical education and the workforce
• Facilitate the needs-based, country-level implementation of FIPEd tools and the outcomes of Global Conference of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education
• Increase stakeholder engagement, knowledge exchange and partnership building
• Monitor progress and evaluate impact and implementation

The aims of the hub’s projects are to gain a better understanding of the global education landscape, innovations in education, and new methods and tools in specific areas of workforce development. Workforce Development Hub experts work with wider forums and expert groups to implement their work plan through literature reviews, case-study development, policy analyses, and quantitative and qualitative research, in order to develop evidence-based frameworks and guidance, and to inform policy and practice development. The reports and tools are tested, validated and shared with the FIP’s global community of practice to be used and implemented.

The hub, together with other global educationalists and researchers, publish research in the journal Pharmacy Education (editor Timothy Rennie).

The current WDH focal areas and leads are classified according to the Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals (PWDGs), under the direction of Professor Ian Bates (University College London, UK). In addition the Hub has three associate directors, Professor Jill Boone (USA) is associate director for digital events, Professor Claire Anderson (UK) is associate director for engagement and dissemination and, Associate Professor Kirstie Galbraith (Australia) is associate director for evidence-based hub resources.

The classification is as follows:

		Claire Anderson (Europe), Shaun Gleason (North America) and Patricia Acuna-Johnson (South America)
		Asma Al Haqan (Eastern Mediterranean), Dalia Bajis (Eastern Mediterranean), Shepard Mhlaba (Africa)
		Abeer Al-Ghananeem (Eastern Mediterranean), Bronwyn Clark (Western Pacific), Abby Kahaleh (North America) and Banan Mukhalalati (Eastern Mediterranean).
		Desak Ernawati (South East Asia), Kirstie Galbraith  (Western Pacific) and Arit Udoh (Europe/UK & Africa). Find out about the Global Advanced Development Framework here.
		Andreia Bruno-Tome (Western Pacific/Australia & Europe), Naoko Arakawa (Europe/UK & Western Pacific) and Arijana Mestrovic (Europe).
		Miranda Law, (North America), Minesh Parbat (Europe/UK) and Toyin Tofade (North America)
		Marwan Akel (EMR), Mariet Eksteen (Africa) and Barbel Holbein (Europe).
		Jill Boone (North America), Astrid Czock (Europe) and Silvana Nair Leite (South America).
		Amy Chan (Western Pacific), Rula Darwish (Eastern Mediterranean) and Jarrod McMaugh (Western Pacific).
		Vibhuti Arya (North America), Nadia Bukhari (South East Asia/Europe) and Carlene McMaugh (Western Pacific).
		Judilynn Solidum (Western Pacific).
		Marcelle Claquin (Africa), Saja Al Nahar (Eastern Mediterranean) and Kayoko Takeda (Western Pacific).
		Chima Amadi (Africa), Ellen Schafheutle (Europe) and Marnix Westein (Europe).

Find out more about the work of WFD Hub through the publications listed here.

The FIP Workforce Reference Guide

Since being set up into 13 teams since September 2019, the Hub leads have been preparing for the launch of a ‘Workforce Reference Guide’ in September 2020. The digital Guide includes all information, evidence and expertise from FIP to support our members with measuring progress, evaluation, implementation and transformation processes with regards to the workforce elements of the FIP Development Goals. Find out more about the Guide and access it here.

Join us in our mission

The work of the WFD Hub is largely achieved through the efforts of dedicated and enthusiastic international team of expert volunteers. The in-kind, financial and other support of corporate sponsors, donors, associations, groups, schools and individuals is much appreciated to ensure that we meet our objectives.

Contact If you have a question or you’re interested in joining or supporting us, please get in touch! education@fip.org