APhA and the CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention are convening a Community of Practice for Advancing Health Equity with Public Health and Pharmacy Partnerships The project will accelerate the implementation of pharmacy-based strategies to advance health equity through initiatives that address racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease risk factors, prevalence, or outcomes. We are seeking nominations of teams of representatives from public health departments and the pharmacy community. Teams must be geographically located in the United States; include at least one team member representing a public health department, agency, or organization; and include at least one team member representing the pharmacy community. Selected teams will participate in two virtual APhA/CDC-convened learning sessions and three virtual peer-to-peer learning sessions with other CoP teams between March 2024 and March 2025. Selected teams may be highlighted in documents disseminated in collaboration with CDC.
If your health department or pharmacy practice is collaboratively providing pharmacy-based strategies for heart disease and stroke prevention to advance health equity, please submit your application for this professional development opportunity. To access the CoP application, please click here. All applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on Feb. 15. Selected CoPs will be announced in March. Please contact Jann Skelton, RPh, MBA, FAPhA, at [email protected] or Nicole Therrien, PharmD, MPH, at [email protected] with any questions.
