Pharmacists: Be A part of a Groundbreaking World Initiative

March 25, 2026

The International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) invitations you to take part in a pioneering collaboration with Sanofi that may form the way forward for pharmacist-led journey vaccination worldwide. This is your alternative to make sure that pharmacists globally have the data, confidence and assist they should shield vacationers from rabies and different vaccine-preventable illnesses.

Why This Matters—Why Now
We are at a pivotal second in pharmacy observe.

Pharmacists are more and more acknowledged worldwide as important suppliers of journey vaccination recommendation and in some international locations for journey vaccine administration.

The panorama of journey vaccination is quickly evolving: pharmacists in North America, Australia and a few EU international locations can already administer journey vaccines together with rabies. In different international locations, lively discussions to broaden pharmacist vaccination scope are ongoing, and the momentum is constructing.

This is the time to behave. As this function expands globally, we should guarantee pharmacists are ready, supported and outfitted with the appropriate data and assets.

Consider these crucial realities:

• Rabies is 100% deadly however 100% preventable – correct vaccination recommendation and administration can actually save lives
• Pharmacists are sometimes essentially the most accessible healthcare suppliers in communities, positioned to fill crucial gaps in journey well being providers
• The pharmacist function varies dramatically throughout international locations and observe settings – we have to perceive these various realities to supply related assist

Your voice issues now greater than ever whereas instructional supplies, coaching packages and assist initiatives are being developed. This is your likelihood to form the assets YOU will use in observe.

What We’re Doing
ISTM and Sanofi are collaborating to grasp pharmacists’ present data, wants and challenges associated to rabies and journey vaccination.

We’re organizing 3-4 virtual focus groups in April/May 2026, bringing collectively pharmacists from completely different areas and observe settings. While Sanofi helps this initiative, ISTM maintains independence in designing and conducting these focus teams.

We acknowledge that the pharmacist function in journey and rabies vaccination is just not uniform worldwide. Whether you’re already administering journey vaccines, making ready for scope growth in your nation, or on this evolving space of observe, your perspective is invaluable.

These focus teams will present a confidential, protected atmosphere the place you’ll be able to:

• Share real-world experiences, challenges and insights
• Connect with pharmacist colleagues dealing with comparable alternatives and limitations
• Contribute to understanding what helps and what hinders pharmacists on this function
• Directly inform the event of future instructional supplies and coaching packages

What We Aim to Achieve
Through your participation, we are going to:

• Assess present data ranges on rabies illness and prevention throughout completely different observe contexts
• Identify limitations and facilitators that affect pharmacists’ capacity to supply rabies vaccination recommendation and administration
• Understand various realities throughout completely different international locations, regulatory environments and observe settings
• Develop focused instructional supplies and coaching that handle YOUR recognized wants—not generic content material, however assets that mirror real-world observe challenges
• Identify the distribution channels for instructional supplies
• Support pharmacists in confidently and safely increasing their function in journey well being
• Contribute to improved public well being outcomes and affected person entry to life-saving vaccines

Why Your Participation Matters
This is your alternative to form the assets and assist YOU want.

Your frontline expertise is invaluable—you realize the true limitations and alternatives that textbooks and tips don’t seize. Whether you’re already offering recommendation and even administering journey vaccines or making ready for future scope growth, your perspective will assist be sure that:

• Training supplies mirror precise observe challenges, not simply theoretical data
• Educational assets handle the questions sufferers actually ask
• Support methods account for various regulatory and observe environments
• Knowledge gaps are recognized and closed

You’ll even be a part of a world group advancing the pharmacist function in journey drugs—connecting with colleagues who share your dedication to increasing entry to important well being providers.

What to Expect

• Virtual focus group periods through ISTM’s Zoom platform—take part from wherever
• Expert moderation by ISTM pharmacist leaders with journey drugs experience
• Confidential, protected atmosphere to share experiences and challenges overtly
• Protected id—no names or figuring out info will likely be made public
• Recorded periods for evaluation functions solely, with strict confidentiality protections
• Meaningful dialogue with colleagues from completely different areas and observe settings

Who Should Participate
We welcome group pharmacists from all backgrounds and expertise ranges:

• Pharmacists at present advising on journey vaccines, with a concentrate on rabies
• Pharmacists at present administering rabies vaccine to vacationers
• Pharmacists all in favour of increasing into journey well being providers
• Pharmacists in international locations the place scope is increasing or underneath dialogue
• All expertise ranges—from these simply beginning their journey well being journey to seasoned practitioners

Join Us in Shaping the Future
Be a voice for pharmacists globally.

Your participation in April/May 2026 will assist be sure that because the pharmacist function in journey vaccination expands worldwide, practitioners are outfitted, assured, and supported in defending vacationers from rabies and different vaccine-preventable illnesses.

Together, we are able to construct a future the place each pharmacist has entry to the data and assets wanted to supply life-saving journey well being providers—and the place each traveler has entry to the safety they want.

Your expertise. Your insights. Your influence.