# Healthcare Practice Post COVID-19 Impacts: Will 21st Century Pharmacists Become Global, Agile, Collaborative and Curated?

## TL;DR

The paper explores how pharmacy education and practice can adapt to global disruptions like pandemics by becoming more collaborative and learning from past events.

## Contribution

It proposes that pharmacy professionals should adopt global, agile, and collaborative approaches informed by historical lessons.

## Key findings

- Pharmacy education and practice can benefit from learning from past global disruptions.
- Collaboration and curation of initiatives are essential for managing uncertain times.
- Adapting to future challenges requires a focus on global cooperation and historical insights.

## Abstract

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill. In recent times, globally, approximately three pandemics and thousands of natural disasters and political upheavals have been recorded. In most cases, tens to hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result, whether from droughts, famines, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, landslides, cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes, extreme heat, emerging or resurgent diseases or longer-term issues such as sustainability, climate change and/or global warming. Whilst many accommodations may have been made to cope with these, we propose that pharmacy education and professional practice benefit from learning from the past, from collaboration globally to manage the hectic and uncertain times that result from these disruptions and from curation and evaluation of these initiatives for ongoing and/or future use.