Organised by FIP and supported by unrestricted funding from Haleon
Chair(s)
Lisa Jamieson, BPharm (Hons), MSc (Clin Pharm), MSc (Nutr Med), MRPharmS
Pharmacist Consultant
Introduction:
Ready to uncover hidden clues and reshape patient wellbeing? The case is
yours to solve.
During this session, you’ll step into the shoes of a detective to investigate how widespread micronutrient inadequacies are silently eroding public health – and will emerge equipped to champion nutrition-driven action in your pharmacy practice.
Case briefing:
• As pharmacists, you are trusted healthcare providers – but you’ve inherited a tough case.
• Despite longer lives, we are living the last ~9 years of in poor health. Efforts to shift health habits from reactive to proactive matter more than ever.
• Current pharmacy education also largely overlooks nutrition especially the role of micronutrients supporting health. You’ll gather practical, everyday solutions that you can use to help assess this in your practice.
Your challenge
• Join this interactive experience and examine the evidence for yourself.
• You’ll uncover why so many may be missing micronutrients, even with a seemingly healthy, balanced diet and how these hidden gaps could be quietly impacting health.
• The causes are complex and evolving, ranging from modern diets to systemic factors beyond individual control such as climate change, farming practices and soil quality.
Solving the case:
• Understand the challenges in obtaining micronutrients that are both within and beyond our control.
• Learn about the health impacts of not getting adequate micronutrients.
• Equip yourself with current evidence on how multivitamins can support nutritional needs and certain areas of health.
• Take away actionable guidance to confidently integrate nutrition into your pharmacy practice.
The investigation begins now. Are you ready to help solve the case?
Programme:
| 13:00 – 13:10 | Case Briefing: Micronutrient Mysteries |
| Get your mission briefing, understand the game rules, your objectives, and meet our speaker, your “lead detective”. | |
| 13:10 – 13:50 | |
| Our speaker and “lead detective”, will guide the investigation and extract clues from the audience to help you to solve the case across three core missions: |
| 1) Rethink Missing Micronutrients: The Silent Health Thief | | |
| - Understand the role that micronutrients play in our bodies, and the underlying causes behind the global challenge of micronutrient inadequacy and deficiency. |
| 2) Rethink Multivitamins: Crack the Case Wide Open | | |
| - Learn how gaps in micronutrients can impact health, why they occur despite a seemingly healthy, balanced diet, and the clinical evidence supporting the role of multivitamins. |
| 3) 3) Rethink Your Role: From Dispenser to Detective | | |
| - Equip yourself with practical tools to assess missing micronutrients, and simple ways to address this in your pharmacy practice. |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | Case Closed: Q&A and closing |
Gain a better understanding of the role that micronutrients play in our bodies, and the underlying causes behind the global challenge of micronutrient inadequacy and deficiency.
2. Understand the challenges of missing micronutrients in your diet, and explore clinical evidence supporting the role of multivitamins: Learn how gaps in micronutrients can impact health, why they occur despite a seemingly healthy, balanced diet, and the clinical evidence supporting the role of multivitamins.
3. Learn how to detect missing micronutrients and integrate this into practice: Equip yourself with practical tools to assess missing micronutrients, and simple ways to address this in your pharmacy practice.
Take home messages:
1. Rethink Missing Micronutrients: The Silent Health Thief:
- Micronutrients are fundamental to our health, yet over half the global population is estimated to have an inadequate intake of certain micronutrients
- What’s causing this silent crisis? A complex web of factors both within and beyond our control make achieving adequate micronutrient intake challenging, potentially impacting our health.
2. Rethink Multivitamins: Crack the Case Wide Open:
- It’s time to rethink the role of multivitamins as a simple, accessible part of a solution to help bridge gaps in micronutrient intake.
- There is clinical evidence to support the role of multivitamins in helping close nutritional gaps as well as providing tangible health benefits
3. Rethink Your Role: From Dispenser to Detective:
- Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to detect potential micronutrient gaps, as well as to address this in practice.
- Multivitamins can be a simple, accessible part of a solution to help patients take charge of their health both now and in the future.
The investigation starts here – are you ready to rethink the role of a multivitamin to help solve the micronutrient mystery?
