School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (USIU-AFRICA/SPHS-IPHRCE)

Organized by: School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, United States International University
From October 26-28, 2022

Theme: Collaborative Research for Distinction in Research and Scholarship
 

The School of Pharmacy and Health Science (SPHS) at United States International University-Africa has the pleasure to invite you to the above conference that will take place both physically and online at USIU-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya on October 26-28, 2022 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EAT.

About the Conference

The goal of the conference is to provide a platform for students, faculty and staff for sharing of their research outputs. The conference will also help pharmacy and other health professionals to present their research work and to display their innovations in form of oral, poster presentation and exhibition.

During this conference, multidisciplinary teams working in a variety of areas of pharmaceutical research, innovation, and practice will be able to share their experiences. In addition to providing an opportunity to share research findings and best practices, it also serves to increase youth engagement and leadership in pharmacy and other health-related fields. The diverse range of conference subthemes caters to a wide range of interests, including those venturing into new and emerging areas.

Participants of the conference will get the opportunity to meet their peers, colleagues, and distinguished researchers, practitioners and policy makers for three (3) full days of learning and education, networking, collaboration and mentorship.

The three days of the conference will include a scientific program with plenary, breakout, poster sessions and photo exhibition. The conference will be delivered in hybrid mode, allowing both face to face and virtual participation. Participants of the conference, share their research output through oral/poster presentation, display their professional carrier/portfolio on photo exhibition and also can have networking session.

There will also be a best research scientist competition and certificates will be presented to the top four authors decided by an audience vote.

The conference abstracts will be published as conference proceeding. Each conference proceeding can be individually indexed, is citable via a digital object identifier (DOI) and is freely available under an open access license.

Conference Thematic Areas

1. Drug discovery, Development and Clinical Pharmacy

a. Natural Product Research
b. Bioinformatics
c. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
d. Nanomedicine
e. Genomics, Diagnostics, Vaccine Developments, & Innovations
f. Oncology Pharmacy
g. Drug use evaluation
h. Formulation sciences
i. Cosmetic science and cosmetology

2. Social and Regulatory Pharmacy

a. Pharmaceutical supply chain management
b. Pharmacovigilance,
c. Pharmacoepidemiology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
d. Pharmacoeconomics
e. Community pharmacy services
f. Pharmaceutical procurement
g. Industrial Pharmacy and Analytical chemistry

3. Health Sciences Research

a. Leadership and management in pharmacy
b. Role of pharmacists in health care leadership
c. Experiential learning, Medical/health professional education
d. The Future pharmacists
e. Continuous professional development
f. Mental Health & Other Non-Communicable Diseases
g. Infectious disease and Antimicrobial Stewardship
h. Essential Sexual, Reproductive, Adolescents, Maternal, & Child Health
i. Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Prevention, Control and Elimination, and Antimicrobial Stewardship
j. COVID-19 Pandemic: Response and Challenges

4. STEM and Innovation

a. STEM

b. Innovations in STEM
c. Innovations in health care products

Registration Fee

Conference attendance fee including access to attend all sessions (face-to-face or virtual), catering service (Breakfast, two teas and buffet lunch) and a certificate of participation.

• Early registration (From May 1 to August 31, 2022)
  • $ 170 (face to face); $ 100 (online)
• Late registration (From September 1 to October 22, 2022)
  • $ 200 (face to face); $ 100 (online)
• Registration link: https://forms.gle/t5EwVGEAVVxhZJV46
• Abstract submission: https://pharmaconference.usiu.ac.ke/index.php/IPHRCE/IPHRCE2022
• For accommodation, contact: pharmaconference@usiu.ac.ke

Registration fee includes:

• Admission to all sessions
• Participation in the opening ceremony
• Networking reception
• Coffee/tea breaks
• Lunch (during the Conference days)
• Gala dinner on Thursday, October 27, 2022
• Conference bag, brochure, note book and stationary items
• Certificates
  
  • Certificate of attendance or
  • Certificate of appreciation for Oral Presentation or
  • Certificate of appreciation for poster presentation.

Registration Deadlines
Registration ends on Saturday, October 22, 2022 (at midnight EAT).
Continuous professional development (CPD) Points will be awarded to registered members of health professional societies/associations.

Important Dates

• Conference registration starts- May 1, 2022
• Open for abstract submission- May 15, 2022
• Early registration discount ends- August 31, 2022
• Abstract submission deadline August 15, 2022
• Abstract accept/ reject notifications September 05-15, 2022
• Presenting-author registration deadline- September 30, 2022
• Schedule notification- October 05, 2022
• Deadline for submission of full poster or power point slides- October 10, 2022
• Conference registration ends October 22, 2022

Note: Authors who have had their abstracts accepted are required to register for the conference before - Friday, September 30, 2022..

Contacts

Conference Secretariat,
E-Mail: pharmaconference@usiu.ac.ke
Phone: +254 730 116 716 /833 / 810