The Advocacy Starter Guides and Toolkits page offers a collection of foundational resources designed to help members strengthen their advocacy knowledge, build confidence, and engage more effectively at the institutional, state, and national levels. Whether you’re beginning your advocacy journey or looking to expand existing efforts, these guides and tools provide practical strategies, examples, and planning supports that reflect the experiences and contributions of faculty, staff, and student pharmacists from across the Academy.
Within this space, you’ll find easy‑to‑use guides, activity catalogs, submission opportunities, toolkits, and talking points that illustrate diverse approaches to advocacy in academic pharmacy. These resources are designed to inspire new initiatives, showcase successful models, and equip you with the language, context, and evidence needed to communicate the impact of pharmacy education and research. Explore the materials to discover ideas, refine your advocacy strategy, and contribute to a growing body of shared knowledge that strengthens our collective voice.
Guides
Advocacy Guide for Pharmacy Practice and Education
Inspired by Guide for Pharmacy Advocacy, created by the 2022-2023 Council of Deans Community Engagement Task Force, the 2023-2024 Strategic Engagement Committee has developed a guide which offers examples of strategies, resources, and tools that can be used to facilitate advocacy planning advocacy champions and academy members. Based on 2024 Annual Meeting Focus Group conversations and suggestions made by the 2024–2025 SEC Committee, the guide was further modified.
Advocacy Activities Catalog
Designed to showcase a wide range of advocacy-related initiatives led by faculty, staff, and student pharmacists. By organizing abstract submissions around common elements such as focus areas, collaborators, outcomes, and levels of engagement, the tool helps users identify strategies, explore new ideas, and find inspiration for their own advocacy work.
Submit an Advocacy Activity
The AACP Strategic Engagement Committee (SEC) maintains a central database where members from across the academy can search to get assistance in developing new advocacy activities for their institutions. The SEC continues to collect information on institutional advocacy activities, particularly within their home state and those including student pharmacists, using the developed survey instrument. Unique identifiers will be removed from all published information. The SEC requests members not to include personal advocacy practices that are not supported and or provided by their school/college of pharmacy (e.g. participation in a state organization as a member of that organization, not through their school/college).
Access the form here.
Toolkits & Talking Points
Access resources that support effective advocacy messaging on key pharmacy education and research priorities.
Pharmacy Research Funding: A National Perspective - American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
R&D Pipeline Infographic - Research!America
NIH's Role in Sustaining the U.S. Economy: Creating Jobs and Strengthening Local Economies - United for Medical Research
Guiding Principles for State Policy on Pharmacy Personnel-Administered Vaccines - Pharmacy-Based Vaccine Access Workgroup
The U.S. Department of Education's Proposal on OBBB RISE Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regulation Summary - American Council on Education
2026 January National Survey - Research!America
Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act - American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
HRSA Loan Repayment Programs Comparison Chart - Health Resources and Services Administration
