Dr Tedros Adhanom, Director General WHO and Dr Catherine Duggan, CEO of FIP with (l to r) Sherly Meilianti, Young Pharmacists Group, Zuzana Kusynova, FIP, Professor Lilian M. Azzopardi and Lina Bader, FIP.
Professor Lilian M. Azzopardi, from the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at UM and President of the European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy, was invited to join the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) delegation at the WHO World Health Assembly held last week in Geneva.
Professor Azzopardi was a facilitator during the session dedicated to ‘Actions needed to address the 18 million health workers shortage by 2023’.
During the signing of a memorandum of understanding between FIP and Dr Tedros Adhanom, Director General on behalf of WHO, Professor Azzopardi discussed the topic of leadership to support transformative high-quality pharmacy education to match people health needs.
