New Mexico pharmacists win fight for reimbursement

May 18, 2020

ADVOCACY: By Jessica Severin

The fight for provider status took a huge step forward in the state of New Mexico in March.

Social media tips and tricks

May 18, 2020

ADVOCACY: By the 2019–20 APhA–ASP Communications Standing Committee

After an exciting and eventful year on the APhA–ASP Communications Standing Committee, we want to share our favorite and most useful tips for effectively expanding your chapter’s social media prese

The invisible cheerleaders

March 9, 2020

ADVOCACY

Behind every student pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and pharmacist, there is an invisible cheerleader that may go unnoticed. Any ideas who may that be?

A health care storyteller

March 9, 2020

ADVOCACY

The Healthcare Scholar was originally created by one of my mentors, James Cong, PharmD, as a media platform to encourage interprofessional health care collaboration and learn from other students an

Be a good idea champion

January 21, 2020

ADVOCACY

Student pharmacists are sometimes told that they don’t know enough yet to create legislative or policy change. They are told that they need to wait, that they aren’t ready.

Back the PAC

January 21, 2020

ADVOCACY

In order to create the change we desire in the pharmacy profession, pharmacists need to learn from the past and commit to the future.

Training for firearm-related violence

November 18, 2019

ADVOCACY

As the daughter of a retired law enforcement officer, I was honored to assist with the implementation of 2019.5—Creating Safe Work and Learning Environments for Student Pharmacists, Pharmacists, an

The power of student advocacy

November 18, 2019

ADVOCACY

This year, as the Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Associated Students of Washington State University Health Sciences (ASWSUHS), I helped lead the passage of HB 1726 in the Washington

The concept of self-advocacy

September 17, 2019

ADVOCACY

By Kelsey Melgaard, PharmD, MPH

‘Advocate for yourself ‘cause no one else will’

July 23, 2019

ADVOCACY

By Connor Reed, Tanner Rogers, Kyler Vaughn, and Amelia Whitkanack

Be an advocate for patients

May 23, 2019

ADVOCACY

By Michael Harvey

Staying in the know has never been easier

May 23, 2019

ADVOCACY

By the 2018–19 APhA–ASP Communications Standing Committee

Online Exclusive: Some fees have “DIRe” consequences

April 22, 2019

ADVOCACY

By David Bunch

Treating “they” and “I”

January 18, 2019

ADVOCACY

By the 2018–19 APhA–ASP Policy Standing Committee

Assisting patients during national disasters

November 19, 2018

ADVOCACY

By the 2018–19 APhA–ASP Policy Standing Committee

Chapter committee focused on sexual health education

November 19, 2018

ADVOCACY

By Alyssa Snyder and Eliza Totsky

Policy on!

May 18, 2018

APhA GOOD GOVERNMENT STUDENT PHARMACIST-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD By Sierra Woods

For the past 2 years, pharmacy policy and advocacy have been my life.

A prescription for better policy

May 18, 2018

ADVOCACY By Cady McNear

When I got into pharmacy school at the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy in 2016, the last thing I imagined was getting involved in politics.

On a mission to transition care


March 15, 2018

APhA–ASP POLICY STANDING COMMITTEE

“I can’t afford that medication, but I need something to help me.” A patient, “John,” had been recently seen for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with constipation in the emergency department, where he rec

Pharmacy benefit managers: Why so much attention?

January 22, 2018

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