Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic

Debra A. Goff; Diane Ashiru-Oredope; Kelly A. Cairns; Khalid Eljaaly; Timothy P. Gauthier; Bradley J. Langford; Sara Fouad Mahmoud; Angeliki P. Messina; Ubaka Chukwuemeka Michael; Thérèse Saad; Natalie Schellack

doi:10.1002/jac5.1329

Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic

Debra A. Goff^*
, Diane Ashiru-Oredope
, Kelly A. Cairns
, Khalid Eljaaly
, Timothy P. Gauthier
, Bradley J. Langford
, Sara Fouad Mahmoud
, Angeliki P. Messina
, Ubaka Chukwuemeka Michael
, Thérèse Saad
, Natalie Schellack

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) global pandemic, pharmacists were rarely mentioned as essential frontline health care providers by the news media, the public, or politicians. Around the world, pharmacists are working on the frontlines of health care every day providing essential health care services during the pandemic. Pharmacists are medication experts providing patient care in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics, community pharmacies, long-term care, physician offices, and national and public health. In this paper, we describe how pharmacists from high and low-middle income countries contributed to essential patient care and well-being of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the news media, the public, and politicians often overlooked pharmacists as essential frontline health care providers, we hope that this list of contributions by pharmacists from nine countries in this article can help to change this perspective.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1480-1492
Number of pages	13
Journal	JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
Volume	3
Issue number	8
Early online date	2 Oct 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1329
Publication status	Published - 3 Dec 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: TG is the owner of www.IDstewardship.com. DG is an advisor to
CARBx and Opgen, and has received grants from Merck and Pfizer. The other co-authors have no conflicts. Disclosure: TG states the views and opinions expressed in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of their past, present, or potential future employers. This article was completed outside of working hours without the use of company resources.

Open Access: Free to read, but no Open Access licence.

Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc.

Citation: Goff, DA, Ashiru-Oredope, D, Cairns, KA, et al. Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Am Coll Clin Pharm. 2020; 3: 1480– 1492. https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1329

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1329

Keywords

antibiotic stewardship
coronavirus
global health
pandemic
pharmacists
pharmacy

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Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic

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