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Walt shares his experience of pharmacy through the years from four year pharmacy curriculums and manual typewriters to electronic prescribing and expanded scopes of practice of pharmacy. Sprinkled with stories from being drafted into the army, expectations and realities of pharmacy practice, and personal connections. Our conversation also touches upon the larger pharmacy ecosystem of the role of state boards in supporting pharmacists and promoting a culture of safety.

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And if this has motivated you to advocate for older women health worker rights, consider the following.

First, acknowledge and recognize older women health workers in your daily sphere to better understand topical issues. Once you know these incidences you can engage your local and global communities to highlight these issues, organize public awareness campaigns and demand that health workers can share concerns relating to safety with the public without undue employer influence.

You can reach out to your policy makers to make sure they are including specific legal protections for older women health workers, providing adequate funding, providing social protection, and rethinking training and capacity through the eyes and experiences of frontline older women health workers.

Also, involve the education sectors and employers - it is vital to ensure they include legal literacy in health worker educational curriculum including continuous education curriculums. And, that they are designing effective continuing education and certification programs and developing effective support systems for health workers including the normalizing of mental health interventions and access to whistleblower protections to promote accountability and transparency.

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David Smith, Co-founder and Director of the International Network of Health Workforce education (INHWE), shares about his vision and experiences of founding INHWE and how it has evolve over the years including the pandemic. He also highlights some of the challenges of health workforce education and opportunities to overcome barriers. If you want to find out more about INHWE or be a member please visit www.inhwe.org.

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Noelle shares her experiences of working with community health workers (CHW) in different locations globally and her most recent interaction with CHW in Honduras after the start of the pandemic. She highlights the need for an enabling environment to sustain CHW systems and build on the trust, experience and dedication these individuals bring to the table. As we are seeing more and more health workers leave their jobs due to fatigue and burnout, growing a robust health workforce is more important now than ever. We need to respect and ensure their rights so that they can continue to be frontline heroes.

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Long-term care has been a recurrent topic of discussion throughout the pandemic. In this episode, we do a deep dive with Peter who oversees the certification of care workers in such settings. We discuss models of care, logistics, challenges and avenues for strengthening care delivery in long term care facilities. We also get a sneak peek into how Peter himself fared during the pandemic.



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