Health inclusivity, agency and empowerment: Developing solutions to help pharmacists drive better health outcomes: Report from an international insight board (2023)

Health inclusivity, agency and empowerment: Developing solutions to help pharmacists drive better health outcomes: Report from an international insight board (2023)

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good health and well-being) seeks to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Achieving this goal and universal health coverage cannot be achieved without equitable and inclusive access to health care, in our case, pharmaceutical care. A symposium with the theme “Health inclusivity and the role of pharmacy” took place during FIP’s 80th World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Seville, Spain, in 2022. Equitable and inclusive access to health care is necessary if universal health coverage SDG3 are to be achieved. With the belief that pharmacists can meaningfully influence and improve health outcomes through inclusivity and inclusion, expert speakers from The Economist, leading pharmacists and academics discussed how pharmacy can play a leading role in driving health inclusivity