Award will support the advancement of underrepresented minority participation in COVID-19 clinical trials and contribute to the continued evaluation of FDA-approved products. Researchers from the Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) have been awarded $1 million from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) Innovation award: Covid-19 and Health Equity.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For four decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:

• Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
• Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions.
• Measure the impact of prevention activities.

www.healthypeople.gov

In 2011, AACP, encouraged by the members of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force, proceeded with the development of a new objective that tracks the progress of integrating core public health concepts into the professional curriculum of accredited, U.S. Doctor of Pharmacy degree granting colleges and schools of pharmacy. The newly established objective ECBP-17 and the data collection questions associated with it parallel existing objectives ECBP-12 through ECBP-16 and their data resources that track the progress of integrating core public health concepts into allopathic and osteopathic medicine, undergraduate nursing, nurse practitioner and physician assistant curricula. This new objective is intended to expand the health professions universe of these objectives by including Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) granting colleges and schools of pharmacy.

IMPORTANT: Note on Survey Administration Changes

Data for the Healthy People 2020 Objectives were previously collected through the yearly update of the PharmCAS School Directory pages. In 2020, these data began to be collected through the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness. The updated data are provided below. Healthy People 2030 objectives were released during summer 2020 and baseline data began to be collected in 2022. 

If you would like to review the historical data collected for Healthy People 2020, please visit the data dashboard here.

More than 300 emerging and established leaders in pharmacy will convene June 2-3 at the Bridging Pharmacy Education and Practice Summit being held at six regional host sites across the U.S. to achieve consensus and provide action-oriented recommendations that will help move the pharmacy profession forward. Two key questions will guide participants’ discussion at the Summit: what does pharmacy workforce optimization look like, and to get to an optimized pharmacy workforce, what is needed and what changes are required in the following areas?