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Pharmacy Access Partnership, a center of The Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, is proud to present the inaugural class of Pharmacy Forward, the nation’s first leadership training program for pharmacists around sexual and reproductive health. Pharmacy Forward kicked off in Los Angeles October 2-4, 2009. This first retreat gathered many well-recognized experts from various fields to train fellows in key policy and advocacy areas of reproductive health. Rocio Cordoba and Gabriela Valle of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice led an interactive session on applying the reproductive justice frame to the pharmacist’s role in advancing reproductive health. Edward O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions challenged participates to formulate their own vision and goals to advance reproductive health in a changing – and challenging – healthcare landscape. Participants also enhanced their communication skills through live on-camera media advocacy training facilitated by Berkeley Media Studies Group. Tom Riley, Principal of Cal Capitol Group ended the training reviewing critical advocacy strategies to for fellows to use on the local, state and national levels. Pharmacy Forward fellows were also officially recognized and welcomed as first time attendees at Reproductive Health 2009, Association of Reproductive Health Professional’s national clinical conference. As pharmacists are traditionally underrepresented at this conference, Pharmacy Forward represented a new opportunity for other health professionals to network with pharmacists around a common goal of promoting reproductive health. Over the course of this year-long program, fellows will be setting individual leadership goals and participating in webinars and conference calls. And through PAP’s colleagues and networks, fellows will be introduced to myriad reproductive health and justice organizations throughout the U.S. PAP also extends its most sincere appreciation to its co-collaborators, University of California, San Francisco, School of Pharmacy and Center for the Health Profession’s Pharmacist Leadership Institute. Meet the Inaugural Class of 2009-2010 This year’s Inaugural class is comprised of nine pharmacists from around the country representing various practice settings. These outstanding fellows were selected by our multi-disciplinary steering committee from a pool of 40 applicants from 25 states.
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