Will the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory or voluntary?
Dr. Catherine Duggan responds to this question and provides insights on how to address vaccine hesitancy. She discusses the need to speak with empathy and not division.
How are you talking about the vaccine?
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Dr. Catherine Duggan is the CEO of the International Pharmaceutical Federation.
Dr. Duggan is responsible for visionary leadership, support, development, advocacy and growth across the 150 member organisations and the four million members FIP represents. She is responsible for developing and delivery the strategy, planning and working across global organisations such as WHO, UN, and other international professional groups. In 2019, Dr. Duggan chaired the World Professions Health Alliance which represents 31 million health professionals across medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and pharmacy. She also signed the FIP MOU with WHO in May 2019 at the World Health Assembly meeting which consolidates the collaboration and secures how pharmacy contributes to Primary Health Care to deliver Universal Health Coverage. She was awarded an honorary Professorship from the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. She has been awarded Fellowships of both the RPS and the UCL School of Pharmacy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In November 2020, Catherine was awarded the APSTJ Nagai International Woman Scientist Award 2021, on behalf of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan.
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