Author name: Luzaan Kock

AfrIPEN has launched its new logo.  

The dates for the AfrIPEN Board Zoom meetings up to the conference in Nairobi are: 31/1 @15h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 28/2 @14h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 28/3 @14h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 25/4 @13h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 30/5 @13h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 13/6 @13h00 SAST (GMT +2h) 18/7 @13h00 SAST (GMT +2h) AGM 2019: 1/8 @16h30 Kenyan

You are invited to submit an abstract (poster and oral) for the Second Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice for Africa conference on 30 July – 2 August 2019 in Nairobi. The deadline for the first round of submissions is 1 March 2019. For more information visit: https://interprofessional2019.org/guidelines/

You are invited to submit an abstract to conduct a preconference workshop at the Second Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice for Africa conference on 30 July – 2 August 2019 in Nairobi. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2019. For more information visit: https://interprofessional2019.org/preconferences/

Congratulations to Gérard Filies, secretariat of AfrIPEN, who recently obtained his PhD at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His wife obtained her PhD at the same ceremony. Title: Development of an Interprofessional Education Model that Aims to Instil the Core Competencies of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Allied Health Students Curriculum Abstract: Health Professions Education

On 25th October 2018, Prof Barbara Brandt was invited as they keynote speaker of the 1st AfrIPEN webinar. She is an advocate for Interprofessional  Education in health professions  education and the director of the National Centre for Interprofessional Practice and Education. The topic of her presentation was: Bringing workforce planning and Interprofessional Practice and Education

Presentation by Deanne Johnston (Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) at the ATBH IX Conference in Auckland (Sept 2018) Background: Trinity Health Services is a free inner-city clinic that serves a homeless community in Johannesburg. The clinic is run by pharmacy and medical students registered in

Presentation by Dr Gerard Filies at the All Together Better Health IX conference in Auckland (September 2018) To what extent do interprofessional programmes incorporate interprofessional core competencies as part of outcomes among allied health students? from Stefanus Snyman

Presentation by Dr Stefanus Snyman at the ATBH IX Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on 4 September 2018. Establishing an IPE Network by using Partnership Development Theory: The AfrIPEN case study from Stefanus Snyman

AfrIPEN Report May 2018 from Stefanus Snyman