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FIPWiSE 2024 Activity Report

In celebration of FIPWiSE's 5th anniversary, this annual activity report showcases the initiative's key achievements throughout 2024.

It also outlines some of the plans for FIPWiSE in 2025, setting the stage for continued progress and impact.

Enabling positive practice environments for women in science and education with FIPWiSE toolkit

Positive practice environments (PPEs) support the recruitment and retention of employees, enable the delivery of high-quality work outcomes, and benefit society as a whole.

It is necessary to provide equal rights, obligations, equal treatment, and opportunities for all genders according to their needs to achieve gender equity and PPEs in workplaces. FIP developed the FIPWiSE (the FIP Women in Science and Education initiative) toolkit for positive practice environments for women in science and education to support and enable them by building on the World Health Professional Alliances (WHPA) PPE campaign. FIP is a founding member of the WHPA and used the toolkit as a basis to describe and identify factors that enable PPEs from a pharmaceutical science and pharmacy education perspective. The toolkit provides a set of possible solutions related to women in science and education for individuals, employers, institutions, and policymakers, as well as real-life exam.

Toolkit: FIPWiSE toolkit for positive practice environments for women in science and education

FIP’s initiative for Women in Science and Education has built on the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) Positive Practice Environments Campaign and developed the “FIPWiSE toolkit for positive practice environments for women in science and education” (FIPWiSE toolkit) to identify and address inequalities in workplace environments that affect women in these fields.

The toolkit is designed to raise awareness and provide possible solutions for individuals, employers and institutions that can enable positive practice environments for women in pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy education, and provides learnings that are transferable across the entire pharmaceutical workforce.

In the FIPWiSE toolkit, you can explore key factors that have influence on practice environments and find practical solutions to enable positive practice environments tailored for professionals in science and education, employers (e.g., academic and research institutions, pharmaceutical industry) and policy makers (e.g., national professional bodies).

The FIPWiSE toolkit includes interviews on positive practice environments with Dr Roopa Dhatt, executive director of Women in Global Health, USA, and Howard Catton, WHPA 2021 chair and CEO of the International Council of Nurses, Switzerland.

We invite you to utilise the FIPWiSE toolkit to stand up for positive practice environments by:

  • Circulating it on your social media, across your educational and scientific networks, in your university or organisation’s newsletters, and at events and lectures you attend;
  • Amplifying the campaign messages by sharing the social media cards (which can be found in FIPWiSE toolkit Chapter 4) on your social media, or on your presentations;
  • Printing and displaying the campaign poster (which can be found in FIPWiSE toolkit Chapter 4) at your workplace to pledge your commitment to positive practice environments;
  • Chairing sessions on positive practice environments at conferences, giving keynote speeches, and presenting the FIPWiSE toolkit at national meetings;
  • Running workshops to educate your employees on the benefits of positive practice environments;
  • Using the case studies in the FIPWiSE toolkit to make the case for positive practice environments to your employer or government;
  • Advocating with government and other key decision makers to mainstream positive practice environments; and
  • Celebrating if your workplace is already a positive practice environment and sharing your good practices with FIP at equity@fip.org.

FIPWiSE 2020 activity report

Celebrating FIPWiSE achievements and highlights from FIPWiSE’s story over 2020.

Supporting young professionals and students against COVID-19 related disruptions to education and research 

FIPWiSE released a special edition newsletter featuring stories of young female professionals and pharmacy students and how they adapted to learning under the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a common undertone of hope and persistence in all the stories