The 2009-2010 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee will examine the roles that AACP and its member institutions currently perform, and should play, in the future in the development of pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice educators and researchers in developing and developed countries. Specifically, the committee will be asked to:

• Review the present roles U.S. colleges/schools of phamacy play in working with developing and developed countries to initiate, change and improve their education and training of pharmacists and/or pharmaceutical scientists.
• Examine and determine whether there is a role for AACP to develop a coordinated plan for working with countries that need and request the cooperation of U.S. college/school of pharmacy faculty and students in improving the development, manufacture and/or distribution and use of medications, including vaccinations and nutritional agents, and/or initiating or improving the education of personnel to carry out these activities.
• Determine the potential scope of programs for which AACP could obtain funding from federal agencies and/or philanthropic organizations to support the expanded efforts of U.S. colleges/schools of pharmacy to jointly work with countries that need and request help in the areas such as faculty development, curriculum change, pharmaceutical care and research expansion.