| Dear Member Societies of the IUPHAR,
We are delighted to invite your societies to participate the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) World Smart Medication Day on May 7th 2026. The theme is ‘Race, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Influences on Clinical Pharmacology’.
The IUPHAR initiated the World Smart Medication Day (WSMD) in 2021. The WSMD aims to raise awareness on safe and effective medication use and to encourage the development of clinical pharmacology globally. On WSMD, the IUPHAR organises a webinar and student poster competition around an annual theme. In the past two years, commentaries of the webinars have been published open access [1][2]. Educational video resources from the webinars and copies of the winning student posters have been made freely available on the IUPHAR website.
Opportunities for your society to participate include:
- International Student Poster Competition on the theme, ‘Race, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Influences on Clinical Pharmacology’.There are three categories of poster entries:
- General posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre-graduate students.
- Research posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre- and post-graduate students.
- International collaborative posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre- and post-graduate students for collaborations between students who are each affiliated with different member societies.
Please disseminate the call for posters through your membership several times between now and March 2026 to capture a wide range of student availability. Please help link students with those of international colleagues for the International Collaborative Poster category. A form to facilitate international student contacts will soon be available on the IUPHAR WSMD 2026 website.
Please organise judging for your society’s winner in each category. Please send the nominated winners from your society to the IUPHAR by April 6th 2026 using this link: https://iuphar.org/2026-world-smart-medication-day-poster-competition/.
All posters received will be judged for originality, relevance, message, universality by the IUPHAR Executive Committee and members of the IUPHAR Medical and Clinical Pharmacology Committee, who will nominate the overall winners for each category.
Winners will be invited to present at the World Smart Medication Day webinar on May 7th 2025.
- Disseminate information on webinar on the IUPHAR World Smart Medication Day on May 7th 2026. International pharmacologists and experts with related expertise will provide education and research on the theme, ‘Race, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Influences on Clinical Pharmacology’. This is a free event, open to your members and their networks.
- Organise local seminars and other events to celebrate and promote clinical and translational pharmacology on May 7th 2026.
Thank you for your support of this initiative to promote clinical pharmacology internationally.
Kind regards,
Francesca Levi-Schaeffer (President)
Emilio Clementi (Secretary)
Sarah Hilmer (Chair, Clinical and Translational Section)
Maribel Lucena (Chair, Medical and Clinical Pharmacology Committee) |
