CPE Speaker Series
Zoom
How to make a difference - a guide to capacity building and advocacy
Whether it's helping to establish better medication management for marginalized populations, or improving environmental sustainability within pharmacy, there are great opportunities to improve civil society by building capacity and infrastructure to bring individuals and groups together to make a difference. Advocacy is not as intimidating as it looks, and in this talk Shellyza will provide an overview and examples of 'capacity building' to enact change.
Speaker: Shellyza Sajwani
Shellyza Moledina Sajwani is the current co-chair of the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment (CAPhE) and the Co-Chair of the Ottawa Hospital Pharmacy Environmental Stewardship Committee; she is also the Co-Lead for the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Development Goal for Environmental Sustainability. She works as a pharmacist working within climate change , global health and oncology based settings.
Shellyza completed her Masters of Pharmacy at Aston University, and later completed a PharmD at the University of Toronto. She has also completed a climate change and health certification from Yale University and a global health delivery certification from Harvard University.
Along with working on the Climate Pharmacy committee at the Ottawa Hospital, she has worked for ten years as a cancer specialized pharmacist and has led the creation of disaster plan processes for the Ottawa Hospital for electronic medical record severe downtime .
As part of a new initiative called Climaceutics Health Solutions, Shellyza is now involved in starting to build a new tool and certification process for community pharmacies in Canada which involves climate and pollution mitigation as well as climate adaptation
Shellyza has worked various volunteer board positions within the past ten years. She served as the then-youngest ever co-president of Pharmacists Without Borders Canada's thirty year history and within her three year term, helped to expand and pivot pharmacy related missions during the COVId-19 pandemic. Finally, she has also worked to expand volunteer capacity and strategic objectives within her term as Deputy of Global Health Partnerships for the Aga Khan Health Board for Canada.
