Māori health specialists and specifically Māori Pharmacists play a vital role in improving health services and health / wellbeing outcomes for whānau and their communities. That’s why Aotearoa New Zealand needs so many many more of them. We need you!
While most pharmacists work in community and hospital pharmacies, many also work in primary healthcare environments (with general practitioners), government organisations, industry, medical writing, and academia. Opportunities for pharmacists are constantly growing as the healthcare sector changes to meet the needs of our communities.
Pharmacists play an important part in the health workforce in providing access to medicines, optimising use of medicines and ensuring quality of medicines and do so through a variety of roles including services relating to: primary health care, medicines management, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy. Some pharmacists are even involved in border patrol and others have new roles in prescribing. They are also one of the most trusted professions.
Our members and our networks want to see more Māori in the Pharmacy sector. Our rōpū is tasked with supporting and mentoring students study and tertiary journey in to Pharmacy at the two universities in Aotearoa New Zealand – Otago and Auckland.
Otago and Auckland Universities both offer a four year undergraduate as well as various postgraduate clinical and social pharmacy qualifications and research degrees such as PhDs. For more information on enrolling at either of these universities visit the links to their Pharmacy Schools below.
