In BC, pharmacists are uniquely positioned to help improve HPV vaccination rates and prevent HPV-related cancers. Learn how to spot vaccination opportunities, navigate provincial immunization recommendations and eligibility criteria, access relevant health records, and embed evidence-based interventions into daily practice. Gain practical approaches to turning routine client care into meaningful cancer prevention.
Learning objectives
After attending the webinar, pharmacists will be better able to:
- Recognize clients eligible for HPV vaccination using current BC immunization recommendations and publicly funded eligibility criteria.
- Incorporate HPV vaccination assessment into pharmacy clinical services and client encounters including travel consultations and contraception services.
- Utilize available provincial tools, resources, and immunization records to identify vaccination opportunities and support informed client discussions.
- Implement a sustainable workflow that enables routine HPV vaccination assessment, recommendation, administration, and follow-up within community pharmacy practice.
Accreditation Information
This program is non-accredited. Total learning hours is estimated at 1.0 hours. Participants will receive a letter of participation after completing the survey at the end of the webinar. This learning program received financial support from Merck Canada. This event will be moderated by a member of our Pharmacy Practice Support team at the BC Pharmacy Association.
About the Speaker: Ajit Johal
Ajit has been providing immunizations and clinical education since 2012. As a community pharmacist, he is an accessible provider of immunizations to patients in the community. In 2018, he started an organization called immunize.io with a mission statement of “taking our best shot at immunizing the world”. Through “immunize.io,” he has worked with numerous organizations and communities to address “vaccine hesitancy” and improve vaccine access locally, nationally, and globally. He champions community pharmacists as leaders of immunization services and presents on this topic at a national and global level. Ajit is also a clinical assistant professor for the University of British Columbia Faculty of Sciences program. At UBC, he has previously coordinated an elective course for UBC pharmacy students in travel health and immunizations.
Registration Information
A BCPhA account is required to register for this event. If you do not have a login account or if you are unsure if you have a login, please fill out the Account Creation Form and a member of the BCPhA team will contact you. Accounts can be created free of charge with valid College registration.
Registration closes an hour prior to the start of the webinar, at 5 p.m. On the day of the webinar, you will receive a link to the webinar by email. The email will come from noreply@zoom.us and could be in your junk folder.