Haleon Fiji Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference One Health Program Guide

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PROGRAMME - Day 1: Saturday 8th October 2022

TIME ACTIVITY

12:00 pm

Trade Display | Lunch

1:00 pm Registration

1:15 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Program Overview

1.30 pm

2:00 pm

2:20 pm

2:50 pm

3.10 pm

3:40 pm

4:00 pm

4 20 pm

Platinum Sponsor Presentation (30 mins)

Session 1 - One Health Concepts and Overview (20 mins)

Session 2 - Antimicrobial Stewardship for Community Pharmacists (30 mins)

Session 3 - Veterinary Medicine Dispensing in Retail Pharmacies (20 mins)

Trade Display | Afternoon Tea

Session 4 - Pharmaceuticals baseline study in Fiji Coastal waters and exposure effects in Pelagic Fish (20 mins)

Session 5 - Prevalence and Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacterial isolates from a tertiary hospital in Fiji(20 mins)

Session 6 - Governance for One-Health management of AMR in Fiji (15 mins)

4 35 pm Break

7:00 pm

7:30 pm

Complimentary Cocktail

Reliance Wholesale Dinner EventTheme: Sip & Sing

SECTOR SPEAKER/ FACILITATOR

Ms Nikita Naidu

Ms Joshila Lal Conference Director

Mr Reenal Chand President - FPS

Grace Wong & Anulika Okoye Haleon Consumer Healthcare Australia (formerly GSK Consumer Healthcare)

Dr Mahmoud Nuha World Health Organization

Dr Kirsty Buising University of Melbourne

Dr Royford Magiri Fiji National University

Mr Rufino Varea Marine Ecotoxicologist, USP

Ms Numa Vera Fiji National University

Dr Seona Meharg EMAR in Fiji Project

Key: - Human Health |

Animal Health |

Environment | - One Health Colour code: Plenary Sessions | Refreshments

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PROGRAMME - Day 2: Sunday 9th October 2022

TIME ACTIVITY

8.30 am Registration

9:10 am

Session 7 - Therapeutic Guidelines Overview (20 mins)

9:30 am

Session 8 - One Health (20 mins)

9:50 am Session 9 - Patient knowledge and Perception about Antibiotics in Community Pharmacy (15 mins)

10:05 pm

Session 10 - Documentation And Analysis Of Prescription-Based Interventions (15 mins)

10:20 am Session 11 - Knowledge, Attitudes and Perspectives of Community Pharmacies Towards Antimicrobial Resistance, Fiji2022 (10 mins)

10:30 am Trade Display | Morning Tea | Check Out (45 mins)

11:15 am

Session 12 - Antimicrobial Resistance in Residential Aged Care Facilities (45 mins)

SECTOR

SPEAKER/ FACILITATOR

Ms Mieke Hutchinson-Kern Therapeutic Guidelines Limited

Dr Joanna McKenzie COMBAT AMR

Ms Priya Chand Pharmacy Intern

Ms Shinal Kumar Pharmacy Intern

Reenal Chand Fiji AMR Focal Point

12:00 pm

Session 13 - Antibiotic Use in Crops - Plant Health and AMR (30 mins)

12:30 pm Trade Display

1:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

3:00 pm

Session 14 - FPS Strategic Plan Progress (30 mins)

Session 15 - Code of Conduct (30 mins)

Closing Remarks

3:10 pm Afternoon Tea

of Conference

Total CPD Points on Offer: 12 Group 2 points

A.Prof. Rietie Venter University of South Australia

Mr Nilesh Chand BioSecurity Authority of Fiji

Human Health

Plenary Sessions

Animal Health

Environment

Ms Joshila Lal Fiji Pharmaceutical Society

Ms Reshnika Sen Chair - Conducts Committee

Mr Reenal Chand

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A MESSAGE FROM CONFERENCE DIRECTOR, MS JOSHILA LAL AND FPS PRESIDENT, MR REENAL CHAND

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On behalf of the organizing committee, I am delighted to invite you to the 2022 Fiji Pharmaceutical Society HALEON Annual Conference.

We had hoped that the dawn of 2022 will bring good news and allow us to reconnect again after the last 2 years of uncertainty, travel restrictions and lockdowns. Luckily this year, we can meet face to face and reconnect with colleagues, old friends and hope to find solutions to complex global issues. Often, a singular approach is not enough to tackle such significant, multi-layered problems such as climate change, rising noncommunicable diseases, zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance to name a few Such complex issues call for cross-sectoral collaborative efforts of a multi-disciplinary workforce.

The COVID 19 pandemic showed us the power of collaboration and the resilience of the human spirit. Collaboration is key to success in this new world order. Now more than ever, we must learn to reach across our differences and work together with not only other healthcare workers but also with professionals from other disciplines. Our conference theme “One Health” enshrines a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach and highlights that our health is closely linked to the health of animals, plants, and the environment.

We hope you are as excited as we are to be part of this action-packed program where you will hear perspectives from the multiple sectors involved in One Health. We hope that this conference provides a springboard for robust discussions which will galvanise us as pharmacists back into action.

It was very motivating to get a lot of keen

interest and response from contributors and like-minded educational fraternity. I sincerely offer my earnest gratitude to those who have contributed through their experience, expertise and/or research papers at the conference. I am confident that the comprehensive program will deliver the knowledge-rich conference experience that will support your learning and development

We would also like to welcome back our long-term sponsors and thank them for their continued support and presence over the years and at the same time a big vanaka vakalevu to our Platinum Sponsor Haleon as a newcomer.

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Platinum Sponsor – Haleon

Gold Sponsors – Pharmatec Ltd, Budget Pharmacy Ltd and Colgate

Silver – Makans Ltd

Bronze – PharmAce Healthcare Ltd and Excel Distributors

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Student Sponsors – Getwell Chemist and KKK Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Dinner Sponsor – Reliance Wholesale

Lunch Sponsor - Chovhan Pharmacy Ltd

These events offer many exciting possibilities, and we hope you will join us as we rise to the challenges and opportunities this 2022 Fiji Pharmaceutical Society HALEON Annual Conference brings with it

Reenal Chand President

Joshila Lal Conference Director

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SPEAKER PROFILES

Dr Mahmoud Nuha World Health Organization

Dr Nuha Mahmoud, Team coordinator Pacific Health Security and Communicable Diseases. Dr Nuha is medical doctor by professional and holds an MSc in Disease Control. She brings over 24 years of experience in clinical medicine, public health, emergency response, and research - working at national and international levels.

Nuha joins WPRO/DPS from her most recent role as Head of Sub Office in Aden, Yemen, where she managed a

diverse portfolio of emergency and nonemergency programmes. Nuha previously worked in Liberia as WHO Technical Coordinator for Ebola, in Darfur and in South Sudan, and she has extensive experience in tropical/communicable disease management/response.

She is a member of Leishmaniasis East African Research Platform (LEAP) and independent consultant of African Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) with 11 years' experience as member on Data Monitoring and Safety Board (DSMB) on clinical trials on combination therapy.

Professor Kirsty Buising COMBAT AMR

Professor Kirsty Buising is an infectious diseases physician at the Victorian infectious Diseases Service who is also currently appointed as Medical Director of Medical Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Australia.

She has a long history of research and engagement in the field of Antimicrobial stewardship. Kirsty is co-lead of the WHO collaborating centre for Antimicrobial resistance

based at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She has served on technical advisory groups for WHO and co-leads the COMBAT AMR program working in the Pacific region on capacity building to meet the emerging challenge of antimicrobial resistance.

Professor Kirsty serves on advisory groups at state, national and international levels in the areas of antimicrobial stewardship, guideline development and healthcare associated infection.

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Dr Royford Magiri

Fiji National University - CAFF

Dr Royford Magiri is an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Microbiology in the Department of Veterinary Science, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Fiji National University.

He studied his PhD in Vaccinology and Immunotherapeutics at the School of Public health, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His other qualifications are MSc. In Clinical Studies and Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine both from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has been involved in tertiary teaching for the last 10 years in areas of Veterinary surgery, Veterinary internal Medicine, Reproduction and obstetrics, Immunology, Microbiology and Virology, Immunotherapeutics, adjuvants and antibiotics, Vaccine, vaccination and infectious diseases,

Animal welfare and ethics working first in Kenya, Canada and Fiji.

Dr Magiri's main area of research is Mechanism of Action of Adjuvants and Immunotherapeutics Agents, Microbiology, Immunology and Disease Pathogenesis, Biotechnology, Development of vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Improving Vaccines through Formulation and Delivery, Antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility.

Dr Magiri is also a member of East Africa Community Small Scale Farmer's Policy Think Tank, Kenya Veterinary Board, Kenya Veterinary Association, Fiji Veterinary Board and Fiji Veterinary Association in addition to being a consultant in veterinary disease control and management. He has published numerous journal and conference papers in areas Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Microbiology and Veterinary pathology.

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Mr Rufino Varea University of the South Pacific

Currently a PhD Candidate, Discipline of Marine Studies, School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Mr Varea's research is focused on the field of Marine Pollution, specifically Ecotoxicology. His research aims to establish the first biomonitoring approach to pollution effects on seafood fish and shellfish using biomarkers. He is a published author of several journal articles and two book chapters. Apart from this, he is also engaged in local and national efforts to form a collaborative network around scientific pollution research and advocacy with NGOs, Government entities and local communities.

Mr Varea also consults with several NGOs, CSOs and regional organisations

as a pollution advisor, and has several years of experience working with coastal communities in Fiji. His community engagement work involves conducting pollution assessments to establish baseline environmental data aimed at improving community livelihoods and fisheries resource dependence. He is greatly interested in advancing how science can better inform policy and action.

Mr Varea is sponsored by the European Union and the Kingdom of Sweden under the Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership Programme. He is an alumnus of the Commonwealth Blue Charter Fellowship and a Research Fellow to the Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort to the Association of Commonwealth Universities-British Council. He has UNFCCC accreditation and is an official research observer at the Conference of Parties (COP).

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SPEAKER PROFILES

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Mr Reenal Raveel Chand Ministry of Health and Medical Services

Mr Chand is a pharmacist having graduated from the (then) Fiji School of Medicine in 2008 and registered in 2010. He completed his internship at CWM Hospital and worked in the public sector from 2009 to 2011 before moving to retail practice.

Having worked in retail pharmacies around Suva for 10 years, Mr Chand then took up the role of Senior Pharmacy Officer for Antimicrobial Resistance at the Ministry of

Ms Numa Vera

Health and Medical Services, Fiji Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Services Centre from October 2021. Mr Chand serves as the secretary to the National Antimicrobial Resistance Committee as well as being Fiji’s Human Health AMR Focal Point.

Mr Chand is also the current President of the Fiji Pharmaceutical Society (FPS) and has also served as the previous Vice President and Secretary.

He has been with FPS since 2013.

Fiji National University - CMNHS

Ms. Numa Vera is originally from Papua New Guinea. She attained a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Papua New Guinea in 2001. She progressed to do a Masters in Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and graduated in 2008

The following year, 2009, she joined the former Fiji School of Medicine as a Lecturer in Pharmacy. In 2010, Fiji School of Medicine was combined into Fiji National University and Ms. Numa has remained working in the university to date. While working at Fiji National University, she continued to upgrade her education career. In 2010, she graduated with Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health Research from Fiji National University. In 2013, she graduated from

Monash University, Australia with Postgraduate Diploma in International Health then in 2014 she attained a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education from Fiji National University.

Ms. Numa is currently holding a position as Assistant Professor in Pharmacy and is the Head of Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at FNU

Her current areas of research include Antimicrobial Resistance and Emergency Contraceptives. She is the lead person from FNU-CMNHS for the Enhancing the Management of Antimicrobial Resistance in Fiji (EMAR) project, focusing on human health.

Her presentation in this conference is part of the finding of the EMAR project

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Assistant Professor Rietie Venter University of South Australia

A/Prof Rietie Venter is currently the Head of Microbiology in Clinical and Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. She also leads the Antimicrobial Resistance stream in Health and Biomedical Innovation. Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance in microbes which is one of the most serious threats in healthcare today. Her group works on projects aimed at understanding and preventing the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance through a One Health approach. The Venter lab utilises a multipronged approach consisting of molecular microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics and protein biochemistry to gain a molecular understanding of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms. This knowledge is then used as the basis for an antimicrobial drug discovery program headed by Rietie that is aimed at finding new therapeutics against drug resistant bacterial pathogens.

Rietie obtained her BSc(Hons) and Master’s degrees with distinction from the University of the Free State in South Africa before securing a scholarship to

do a PhD in the UK. After completing her PhD at the University of Leeds in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, she moved to Cambridge, where she spent twelve years doing research on multidrug transporters, first as a post doc and later running her own research group as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology Not content with moving continents once in a lifetime, she left the ancient buildings and immaculate college lawns of Cambridge for sun and sea in Adelaide, Australia after sixteen years in the UK.

The Venter lab is a vibrant, diverse and international community that collaborates extensively nationally and internationally and welcomes visitors. Rietie is also the lead investigator for the Australian side of an eAsia ATTACK AMR initiative that includes Thailand, USA, Japan and the Philippines aimed at finding alternatives for antimicrobial therapies to reduce antibiotic use.

Lab website: VenterLaborg

Twitter: LabMuis

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SPEAKER PROFILES

Ms Mieke Hutchinson-Kern Therapeutic Guidelines Limited - Australia

Mieke HutchinsonKern is the Partnership Program Manager at Therapeutic Guidelines, based in Melbourne, Australia. Mieke holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy Practice from Monash University, Australia and a Master of Global Health from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. She has worked as a hospital pharmacist in Australia, community, research and teaching roles and has also worked in Solomon Islands and Fiji to support clinical pharmacy

and quality use of medicines. Mieke is passionate about the role of pharmacists in improving the use of medicines and achieving better outcomes for individual patients and communities.

In 2018, Mieke joined Therapeutic Guidelines as the Partnership Program Manager, working to support guideline development and implementation in the Pacific region. This has included supporting the update of antibiotic and respiratory guidelines in Fiji and the implementation of the Fiji Guideline Host app

Dr Joanna McKenzie COMBAT AMR

Dr Joanna is a specialist in One Health

Epidemiology and International Development in the mEpiLab, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, New Zealand.

Joanna is the One Health Specialist for the COMBAT AMR programme to mitigate AMR in the South Pacific, implemented in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and PNG, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia.

She is also a Global One Health consultant to the UK Department of Health and Social Care's Fleming Fund AMR surveillance programme in 24 countries in Africa and Asia. She was Academic Director of Massey University's One Health in Asia Program, responsible for developing and delivering interdisciplinary One Health education, research and zoonotic disease control policy programmes and has led multi-disciplinary zoonotic disease research teams in New Zealand and South Asia for the past twelve years

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Ms Priya Chand Pharmacy Intern

Priya Chand is an Assistant Lecturer in Pharmacy with the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Fiji National University. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India and attained her second Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Fiji National University

In this conference, she will provide an overview on patient knowledge and perception of antibiotics in community pharmacies. This research was part of her pharmacy internship program. Researchers have found that the general public plays a pivotal role in the increase and spread of

antibiotic resistance. The present study was designed to get a better understanding of the existing pieces of evidence pertaining to knowledge and perception about antibiotics in the general population in Fiji.

Her previous research includes “Analytical method development for estimation of Serratiopeptidase using Quality by Design approach” which was carried out at SCES's Indira college of Pharmacy, India.

Another study entailed “Streptophotometric Analysis of Amoxycillin Capsules” that was part of her Bachelor of Pharmacy program in Fiji. This was a baseline study that would provide information base against which to monitor and assess the validation procedure for Amoxycillin Trihydrate capsules.

Ms Shinal Kumar Pharmacy Intern

Ms Shinal Kumar is an intern pharmacist at TappooCity Chemist

She graduated in the year 2020 with the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at the Fiji National University

The topic for her research project towards the internship program was Documentation and Analysis of Prescription-Based Interventions using the PCNE Classification of Drug Related Problems Version 9 in Community Pharmacy Settings along the Suva –

Pharmacists play an essential role in identifying drug related problems and conducting pharmaceutical interventions, this in turn improves the patient's quality of life in ensuring safety and efficacy of the medications taken.

SheI chose this topic to outline the common prescription errors intervened by pharmacists and to highlight the essential role of pharmacists in the health care system.

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Mr Nilesh Chand BioSecurity Authority of Fiji

Nilesh A Chand is the Chief Plant Protection Officer (CPPO - BAF); based at Biosecurity Authority of Fiji – Suva HQ. He has over 25 years of experience with last 4 years as CPPO for BAF.

His qualifications include a Double Masters in Plant Sciences from Australia; The University of Adelaide, South Australia (Plant Health & Biosecurity) and Macquarie University, Sydney (BioMolecular Sciences) with a Bachelor of Agriculture Science from USP, Fiji.

During his work experience with BAF he has worked in trade aspects of biosecurity for plants and its products. This include inspections, sampling, verifications, certifications, mitigations, treatments, surveillance, monitoring, capacity building, reporting, research and auditing.

Mr Nilesh is the current South West Pacific representation for the Implementation and Capacity Development Committee (IC) for FAO International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and also an Executive Committee member for Fiji Institute of Agriculture Sciences (FIAS).

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Ms Joshila Lal

Fiji Pharmaceutical Soceity

Joshila Lal is a registered pharmacist and a senior lecturer at Fiji National University’s College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences with over a decade of experience as an educator, promoting flexible, dynamic and supportive learning environment for pharmacy students. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Monash University and a Masters in International Relations & Diplomacy from University of Fiji and is currently completing her Master’s in Education.

A strong believer in continuing education, Joshila has organized many seminars, workshops and conferences for Fiji Pharmaceutical Society, which brings together pharmacy professionals from across Fiji. She is an executive board member of Fiji Pharmaceutical Society and has also served as the Vice President in the past. She is also a newly elected Commonwealth Pharmacy Association Councillor

Her enthusiasm and passion for the

pharmacy profession has earned her opportunities to actively contribute to the Fiji Pharmacy Profession Board and the Fiji Pharmacy Standards Committee, by leading the development and implementation of the Fiji Continuing Professional Development Guidelines and the Code of Ethics.

Joshila is also a firm believer of serving the community and has been an active member of Rotary Fiji for many years. She has been awarded the Paul Harris Fellow twice in recognition of her commitment to ‘Service Above Self’ to benefit local and international communities.

Joshila is also the Director of PharmAce Healthcare Ltd, a pharmaceutical distribution firm dedicated to bringing quality affordable medicines to the people of Fiji.

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Ms Reshnika Sen Conducts Committee

Reshnika Sen is the current Chair for the Professional Conducts Committee under the Pharmacy Professions Act and is also the representative of the Fiji Pharmaceutical Society to the Pharmacy Professions Board.

Ms. Sen graduated with Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Fiji School of Medicine in 2010 and subsequently registered to practice in 2012. She has attained experience in Hospital Pharmacy and Community Pharmacy

and has been a part time lecturer at the Fiji National University. She recently graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Research from FNU

In 2013, Ms. Sen joined the FPS as a committee member and later held the position of Secretary for 2 years. In 2016, she was elected and became the first Female President for FPS; a position she held for 4 years.

At present, Ms Sen is working as a Community Pharmacist at Nausori Drug and Chemist.

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PARTICIPANTS LIST

Aarti Singh Abinesh Lakhan Ajay Raniga Alvin Khanna Amit Kumar Arnal Singh Asaeli Raikabakaba Ashita Sharma Avnil Narayan Bhavika Ben Desai Dhipak Kumar Dr Mahmoud Nuha Edward Tavui Emi Lewatoro Grace Wong Gurdish Kaur Isabela Koroitukana Janish Sheik Jimit Chauhan Jogita Kalyan Joshila Lal Jyotika Devi Kavita Raniga Manisha Kumar Manoj Kumar

Mereani Bruce

Muni Alvin Krishna Munish Naidu Namrata Tappoo Neha Narayan Nikita Naidu Nilesh Chovhan Nirmal Nand Numa Vera Prakash Chovhan Prashant Chetty Priya Chand Priyanka Prasad Pushp Chand Raginal Lal

Rahul Swamy Rajiv Gopal Rashika Gounder Ratnesh Mishra Ravi Chand Reenal Chand Remal Tappoo Reshnika Sen Rietie Venter Rohit Chand Rohit Rambisessar Royford Magiri Rozima Tahir Rufino Varea Rupali Lal Ryan R Prasad Sakina Mohammed Sandip Kumar Sangeeta Mishra Sanjay Kumar Seleima Baroi Seru Ledua Shaneel Kumar Shayal Chand Sheemal Shareeka Shimal Sharma Shinal Kumar Shivani Singh Shivneel Singh Shonali Kellu Shovina Tazmeena Shafique Shresta S Krishna Shreya Sheenal Kumar Shristy Sharma Shweta Dutt Smeeta Ben Susie Cheer Vijayeta Prasad Vikashni Devi