Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Hiwinui Heke Scholarships! These scholarships are jointly awarded by PHARMAC and The Māori Pharmacists’ Association and are open to Māori students who are enrolled in The Bachelor of Pharmacy programme. The scholarships are named after Hiwinui Heke, the first Māori pharmacist, who was
Working back in your own community and with whanau is a goal for many of us. Being able to take back home what you’ve learnt and being able to help others with that knowledge is part of the ‘hero’s journey’. One of our members Sasha Dobie has recently
IF you ever wondered what it was like working in a hospital pharmacy then here’s one great example… After graduating with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Otago University, Andy Davis worked in Palmerston North hospital as an intern and then as a pharmacist for a just over a
Kia Ora whanau! Meet Kevin, one of our young Maori pharmacists who resides on the beautiful East Coast! He lives there with his partner Kasey and their 2 boys Mikaele (4) and Mataio (1) . Kevin is currently working in Gizzy and will be moving to Wellington at the end
Welcome to our first post about our young Maori pharmacists of MPA In this series we are going to highlight a few of our younger generators and let you know a little bit more about what they do at mahi and outside of mahi… and we start in
An essay by fourth-year pharmacy student and MPA member Robert Haua won him the Future Pharmacist of the Year category in the Pharmacy Today/Guild Pharmacy Awards 2015! Judges were so impressed that they asked that the essay be published in Pharmacy Today! Let’s help to get it out there whanau!
Attention all Māori pharmacy students!! In partnership with PHARMAC, this scholarship was established to support the education of Māori pharmacy students studying toward their Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, and to promote pharmacy as a career. The scholarship is named in honour of our Te Arawa kaumatua Hiwinui Heke MPS
Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – The Māori Pharmacists Association (MPA) had a successful night last Saturday at the National Pharmacy Awards hosted by the Pharmacy Today and the Pharmacy Guild. A record number of entries were received for the 2015 awards and 420 people attended the night. While MPA missed out on the
