Celebrating One Year of Student Involvement, Leadership and Success

The release of the third issue of the Australian Pharmacy Students’ Journal (APSJ) marks one year since the APSJ was first published. We are celebrating one year of student involvement, leadership and success. In this third issue of the APSJ, we celebrate the importance of rural health. This issue includes three feature articles that focus on rural health from both an Australian and International perspective. An additional feature article focuses on the importance of pharmacists in the safety and quality use of medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding. We also had the pleasure of including three original research articles: The first original research article published in this Journal expands on this idea and outlines the evolving role of pharmacists following the COVID-19 pandemic, in a scoping review. The second study was conducted in the Northern Territory (Australia) with a focus on the role of pharmacists in the provision of naloxone and reducing opioid-related harms. Furthermore, as the continuity and development of the pharmacy profession relies on the aspiration of pharmacy students, Goh et al. outline the perceptions of pharmacy students on pharmacy career pathways in their piece on “Undergraduate pharmacy students’ perceptions of community and hospital pharmacy”, which is the third original research article of this issue. The three most impactful pieces from the APSJ’s biannual opinion piece competition were selected and published in this issue of the Journal. Each piece which was selected for publication illustrates a pharmacy student’s experience in a rural setting, their perspectives on rural/regional health and exposes the rewards of working in regional based pharmacy. Today we celebrate one year of student achievements and we invite you to partake in this celebration.