Report of the 2023-2024 Strategic Engagement Standing Committee

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.100752
• Publication Date: 2024-07-06T01:20:09Z
• Authors: Laura C. Palombi; Richard Silvia; Sara Dugan; Md Omar Faruk Khan; Brian I. Kawahara; Katherine S. O’Neal; Evan Robinson; Linda Tyler; Elizabeth Unni; Sarah Shrader; Terri Moore

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) has long emphasized the value of strategic engagement, recognizing that it is critical to the success of pharmacy education, contributing to the expansion of pharmacy and public health practice, the fulfillment of institutional missions, and the meeting of programmatic needs. The 2023-2024 Strategic Engagement Committee (SEC or the Committee) was charged with operationalizing Advocacy Champions, creating an Advocacy Resource Guide to support Advocacy Champions in their engagement with diverse public and private stakeholders, offering formal training to Advocacy Champions in the form of a new Connect Community and Webinar Series, and conducting focus groups at the 2024 Annual Meeting to determine strengths of the Advocacy Guide and opportunities to support Advocacy Champions further.